<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>-David,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>Thank you. As alway's the sage Guru of the group.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>Alicia--Truce ?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2>    Tom --Let's mend the fences --Driscoll</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=david@davidandersenpianos.com href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">David Andersen</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:07 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> NOW YOUNG TECH</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hey, Alicia....please calm down. No one on this list, least of all my friend Tom Driscoll, is trying to make fun of you or disrespect you. We are <B>colleagues</B>, not <B>adversaries</B>. You need to remember this always when you post here. <DIV>We don't know you, who you are, what your history is, where you're really coming from---nothing. Right in your posts, you assume a whole bunch of stuff that isn't necessarily real or true at all. Your senior colleagues are merely pointing that out in a loving way. Relax. You're new, feisty, and reactive. Just like I was. Welcome to the list, girl.</DIV> <DIV>David Andersen</DIV> <DIV>Malibu, California</DIV> <DIV>eternally grateful for this Pianotech community</DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:36 AM, A E wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 13px Tahoma; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0">Thats not quite fair to say, I'm far from "knowing everything" as you say, and I claim that i Mostly know nothing... which in reality is how it is I have much more to learn and much more to gain.. HOWEVER, i do have some experience, and as i previously said my grandmother devoted her life to reduilding/making pianos... So what i say doesnt just come out of the blu...<BR>Please think before you make such statements as they are highly offencive Tom...<BR> <BR>Alicia<BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:18:07 -0400<BR>From: <A href="mailto:tomtuner@verizon.net">tomtuner@verizon.net</A><BR>Subject: WAS SAMICK IS CRAP-NOW YOUNG TECH somewhat OT<BR>To: <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR><BR> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000 size=2> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>Sorry., last post went off incomplete.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>To all,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>    In reviewing recent  pianotech postings I just discovered that our new contributer is  18 years old.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>    I understand her statements now because I too knew everthing when I was 18.</DIV> <DIV>Now that I'm 55 It seems more and more apparent--especially to those who know me best --That I know nothing of consequence and somehow it's getting worse.</DIV> <DIV>    18 ? I have clothes older than 18.</DIV> <DIV>Tom -Just having some fun --Driscoll</DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>    -</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000></FONT></STRONG> </DIV></FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <HR> Get fish-slapping on Messenger!<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000008ukm/direct/01/" target=_new>Play Now</A></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV> <P> <HR> <P></P>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG. <BR>Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.6/1482 - Release Date: 6/4/2008 7:10 AM<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>