<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Bob Hull wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>At the same time, I don't want to be "too good" to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">tune the piano in the home of a child who is just</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">beginning to play sonatinas now, but someday will</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">perhaps someday be a professional musician.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>To me,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">that child is a part of the "high end".<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Our challenge</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">is to raise the skill level of the pianist through our</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">excellence, otherwise there will not be a "high end".<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">This is a true test of whether we have really raised</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">our own skill level. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Agree 100%; could not have said it better. Bringing the best skills, the most honesty, to every single client, every single situation is a big part of the high end---and how you treat yourself, self-respect, is a big part as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Good thread.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>