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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Amen!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
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<A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 22, 2008 7:44
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: two off topics..............
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks for sharing Les. Very interesting. I do however
disagree with you on one point: All that you posted is entirely
ON-topic!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net
href="mailto:l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net">Leslie Bartlett</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 22, 2008 9:28
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is no legitimate reason to continue the
Guild. I met a man from a place here locally "Everything piano".
Old pickup pulling a trailer. He does "everything", is not associated with
the Guild. I asked him "What do you do when you don't know
something and need help?" His response, "WHAT IS IT
I DON'T KNOW?" So obviously someone knows it all! Thus if we simply
learn from the one who knows it all
Truly
scary.</FONT></P><BR>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had a lovely experience today, sort of.
If any tuning of a 100 year old piano can be a good experience, I had
one
.. I groaned out loud when I saw it- lovely case
.. you
know the kind. Inside the hammers were all filed very nicely over the
entire surface. AHA, another piece of junk on which these suckers put good
money and have nothing in return
.. Well, not quite so. All
original stuff, cracks all over the place, and obviously an old piano which
probably should be trashed, but it had been worked on by one Dan McElrath in
Anchorage, Alaska. The guy had done a fair amount of work, even to
replacing the let-off button felts, but nothing frivolous. Pins were
awfully loose, but would hold a tune. The piano was actually a couple cents
sharp, but close throughout except in the very top. The more I sat,
the more impressed I became that whoever this guy was, he was honest,
caring, and judicious in what he did. I asked for his address. They had no
address, but did have his phone number and called him, then put me on the
phone. I simply complimented him on carefully selecting what he
chose to do and not do, seemingly trying to make something useable, actually
useable without claiming it was more than it was, but bringing out the
best which could be reasonably done to an old upright. He told the
piano owner that he seldom got calls from people wanting to thank him for
good work- this made his whole day.
. It's
such an easy thing, easily forgotten, to acknowledge another's good work,
and lift their spirits. It's something we all can do, and in so doing
might be working miracles, not knowing of course what we're really
contributing, except our little piece of praise for something we see done
well. But it certainly makes a big difference to people who work week after
week, year after year, often with little real thanks. Just
wanted to share something we know- it's a very easy thing to take a moment
to appreciate a fellow technician or any person who simply has done the
quality of work we would like to see offered us, it always pays richly to do
so.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>les bartlett</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
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