<html><body> <DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=4>Hi Joe,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Thanks for the note.  Things were definitly ready shop etc.  He thougth teaching me on the coiler would be less visually challanging than making one by hand.  I wouldn't have contacted him for learning if he was't listed in the PTG guild info packet.  He's a great RPT, knows his stuff inside and out.  He taught another vision impaired guy as well who also struggled with stringing for a while. I guess this as I'm told is one of the most challanging aspects for vision impaired folks.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Marshall  Gisondi</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>574-360-6783</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4><A href="mailto:pianotune05@comcast.net">pianotune05@comcast.net</A> </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net> <BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1522" name=GENERATOR> <P> <DIV>Marshall said, "<FONT size=+0>We tried placeing the tuning lever where the diagram mentinos, and when you </FONT> <DIV><FONT size=+0>turn it, the entire tool turns, handle, sleeve etc. I treid to hold the </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>handle in one place as I turned the lever, and man it was like cranking an </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>old modle T. Now I know what they menat when they said that a person could </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>break their arm. Man I didn't feel as if I were going to break my arm, but </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>it was like doing isometric excersizes pushing my hands together nothing </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>budging. My poor instructor grabbed that lever with two hands and had to </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>crank hard to get it to move while trying to keep the handle of the insta </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>coiler stlil. We're both really strong guys but had a tough time with this </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>thing, not sure why. so we tried it without putting the tuning lever on top </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>of the coiler,on top meaning connecting the tip to the top of the coiler. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>it's a pain trying to grab that little handle of the coiler. Plus the becket </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>kept coming loose from the groove of the coiler and it would get loose and </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>wobbly."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=+0>Marshall,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Sheesh! All that screwing around, when you could just be taught the Olde-fashioned, time proven way and be done with it. Also, if I had an instructor that couldn't have things READY for the student, I'd dump him/her in a N.Y. second! Still think you need to go to an accredited school and quit with this shotgun learning!</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon)</DIV> <DIV>Captain, Tool Police</DIV> <DIV>Squares R I</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>