<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16525" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Wow John.</DIV> <DIV>  Man there must be a cosmic strain of thought going on here.  With my son in the shop now I figure he is the beneficiary of 35 years of bootstrap technology & my learning curve (steep) that goes with it. Though my Father was an excellent tuner/teacher ....alllllll the techniques ,tricks & shared information came from PTG friends, colleagues & of course the bootstrap school of sweat.  WHy just the other day I was complaining about this anomaly.....but no one was interested.  grin.....except me?</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>We, as piano technicians, have had to pretty much pull ourselves up <BR>from our own<BR>boot straps. Being kept ignorant by self-serving manufactures, it was <BR>not until the<BR>PTG developed training to further ourselves in this field. I, for <BR>one, would not be<BR>where I am if it weren't for PTG.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's new at <A title="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" href="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" target="_blank">AOL.com</A> and <A title="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" href="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" target="_blank">Make AOL Your Homepage</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>