<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 4, 2006, at 9:52 AM, David Ilvedson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">I would imagine our esteemed friend David Andersen knows this fellow?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Dave's probably off on holiday for the weekend and has missed the drama...</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">David Ilvedson, RPT</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Pacifica, CA<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>94044</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>No, I'm here....it's when you read something you really know about in a paper or magazine that you realize how much pure bullshit there is in this world. Ron Elliott is a really good piano tech, and a lone-wolf, non-collegial kind of guy who has a big bias about aural tuning; I had the same bias until I got collegial and started seeing that a GREAT tuning can be created by ears alone, or by the aid of an ETD---it depends solely on the craft of the tuner.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Elliott didn't make the preposterous statement about no union, no standards, no nothing....it was the Steinway guy from New York. What a shame. The guild does so much good, so much continuing education----and the recognition and marketing factor is zero among even the piano-savvy public. I will write a letter to the LA Times in rebuttal to the article---it's good PR for me, in a strange way.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>DA</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>