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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey: Maybe , if he had known his work was going to
be on the www he would have done better. You think?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gerald McC.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jonpage@comcast.net href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net">Jon Page</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:59
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> They're out there, but let's try
to bring them in the fold</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>>... a self-taught beginning tech who
has very limited resources.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The guy is in his mid 50's and has been refinishing, restringing</DIV>
<DIV>and tuning pianos for over 20 years. To say that he doesn't know</DIV>
<DIV>what an industry standard is for hammer shape is a stretch.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I was going to taper the set but now I'm going to just knock off</DIV>
<DIV>(arc) the square tail with a belt sander since they are pitched</DIV>
<DIV>3 degrees forward - overstriking. He did deftly saw hammer</DIV>
<DIV>heads for clearance problems (jpg attached).</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>>...So go ahead and judge the
work</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>Ok, so he's unobservant.</FONT> Then to
say he lacks comparative reasoning</DIV>
<DIV>or self evaluation probably is too unkind too, and he only has his
head</DIV>
<DIV>stuck in the sand.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Where I come from, someone like that is referred to as a hack.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Dean, I can send you his name so you can do the hand-holding and
bring</DIV>
<DIV>him into the Guild, that is, unless he thinks he knows everything
already.</DIV>
<DIV>I don't see his name in the PTG Directory.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>If a desire for self improvement doesn't work, maybe shame
will.</DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
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<DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>