<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; = BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium = none; FONT: 10pt verdana"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Please keep politics off this list. I = am very politically minded and am soooooo tempted to just rip into this sort of = thing. ROOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR. BUT this is a piano technicians list. We will = not service pianos any better addressing this stuff.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Terry Farrell<BR>Piano Tuning & Service<BR>Tampa, Florida<BR><A = href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A></DI= V> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:mitch_ruth@hotmail.com" = title=mitch_ruth@hotmail.com>Mitch Ruth</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech Majordomo</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 08, 2001 = 7:40 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: no tunings</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Wim, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wish I tuned half that many in a week....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Richard,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The price of gas has been going up for over a year now and the = economy has been slowing for about the same amount of time.  History has = shown that tax cuts will stimulate the ecomomy and it is just common = sense that if people have more money in their pockets they will spend it.  = In addition, if you are overcharged at the store it is right and prudent = to expect your money back.  If the government has a huge surplus of = our cash, they should give it back.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grin...you should really get informed before you let your = political bias allow you to slam your former countrymen...grin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mitch Ruth</DIV> <DIV>DeMossville, KY</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PS Gas prices are related to the definite lack of energy policy = in the US for the past 10 years.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; FONT-COLOR: = black"><B>From:</B> Richard Brekne</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 07, = 2001 4:35 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt = Arial"><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: no = tunings</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 = transitional//en">Grin... well hey.. you all just HAAADDDDD to elect an ultra conservative for = a president... who just HAAAAADDDD to start right off dinking around = with a sizzling economy in the name of some absurd idea that somebody over = there needed a tax cut...... sorry... but ya'll got no ones to blames but yerselfs... grin... <BR>  <BR>  <P>Patrick C Poulson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Wim: I have experienced a slow = down for several months now. Definitely slower than last year.  People = are not rescheduling as quickly as before, and the phone is a lot = quieter.  I think the whole economy is slowing down, and energy prices here in = California have got a lot of us worried. Patrick</FONT></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: = 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>Bergen, Norway <BR><A = href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> = <BR>  <DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR><BR clear=all> <HR> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <A href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</A><BR> <P></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>