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<DIV>I agree with Ron. And I thought we were talking tuning stability here--not all the other what-ifs. Personally, I would not be very inclined to engage the services of a person who sent me a nasty note, told me "to poo poo or get off the pot" or "get off my butt." </DIV>
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<DIV>Barbara Richmond, RPT </DIV>
<DIV>near Peoria, IL </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net> <BR><BR>> Yeah, I don't see the ruining the pianos part either...but Les's partner in <BR>> crime might really like file new hammers to get the voicing right... <BR>> Ron, did you take your pill today? <BR>> <BR>> David Ilvedson, RPT <BR>> Pacifica, CA 94044 <BR>> <BR>> ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- <BR>> From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNOSSAMAN@COX.NET><BR>> To: l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net, "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>> Received: 7/4/2008 8:25:34 PM <BR>> Subject: Re: need some opinions <BR>> <BR>> > <BR>> >> Uh, would it be smart to say that there is no bottom to the well of <BR>> >> human stupidity. <BR>> <BR>> >If not PC, yes. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> >>I have gone to great
pains to educate the pianist at <BR>> >> this church, and she's getting all these posts. I wrote her a nasty note <BR>> >> yesterday which resulted in a long conversation about, well the director <BR>> >> is new, and there are this and that, and so forth. I said to her, "It's <BR>> >> time to poopoo or get off the pot, because you are about to get an <BR>> >> instrument at $100K plus and two seven foot instruments, and you know <BR>> >> more than 90%of the performing artists about a piano, so the time is now <BR>> >> to get off your butt and get this resolved because you're going to ruin <BR>> >> three brand new instruments with this 'share the wealth' policy." <BR>> <BR>> >Concept alert! Ruin!!?? Hold on here. Do I understand this <BR>> >right, that you are trying to sell the concept that having <BR>> >techs other than you tuning the pianos will ruin them??? Just <BR>> >who the Hell
do you think you are that anyone else other than <BR>> >you tuning these pianos will "ruin" them? I've seen a lot of <BR>> >ego fired into the sky on this list, expecting a celestial <BR>> >display with an indeterminate powder charge, but this is <BR>> >asking a whole lot! Les, get real! <BR>> <BR>> >>She <BR>> >> understood, so I told her I had put the situation on Pianotech and she <BR>> >> would have a lot of documentation from good people........ it has <BR>> >> happened. Thanks <BR>> >> les <BR>> <BR>> >Hopefully, she won't contact me. <BR>> >Ron N </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>