<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Re: Korean Dip</title> </head> <body> <div align="left">Thanks for what you said and the confidence. But it's okay; I'm probably better at something else than you are ... classical guitar, maybe, or using rubber bands to shoot flys on walls with my feet propped up on green metal desks--did a lot of that during a year in sunny South Vietnam! <img src="cid:roll_eyes.gif@39477.9871472222.821"/><br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px">-----Original Message-----<br/>From: BobDavis88@aol.com<br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 9:04 pm<br/>Subject: Re: Korean Dip<br/><br/> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_ba7c4fb0-6562-4496-a02f-05a906588b64"> <div>In a message dated 1/30/2008 5:32:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, Alan writes:</div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid"><font face="Arial">What that translates to besides being very impressed, and a little humbled,</font></blockquote> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff">Certainly not the intent, and don't underrate your experience!</font></div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid"><font face="Arial">is that I can actually understand what you and Bob and Dave (et al) have to say,</font></blockquote> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff">Glad to hear that, of course....</font></div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid"><font face="Arial">but translating it into something I will (a) remember </font></blockquote> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff">A piano action is a closed loop with a limited number of interactions. I find that once I grind my way through something until I really understand the concept, I am actually relieved of the need to remember things, and can focus on the differences and subtleties.</font></div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid"><font face="Arial">and (b) be able to use to any real advantage in my work</font></blockquote> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff">Whenever curiosity causes me to put effort into increasing my skill set, more challenging work somehow seems to find me. </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style"> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial">on the next rare occasion to use it .... well, that remains to be seen.</font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style"> </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff">See above. Make the occasion!</font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff"> </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#0000ff">Bob Davis</font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style"> </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style"> </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style"> </font></div> <div><font face="Bookman Old Style"> </font></div><br/><br/><br/> <div><font style="font: 10pt ARIAL,SAN-SERIF; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px"/>Start the year off right. <a title="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" href="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" target="_blank">Easy ways to stay in shape</a> in the new year. </font> </div> </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px"/>More new features than ever. Check out the new <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>!<br/> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>