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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I like your attitude!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fenton</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=toddpianoworks@att.net href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">Matthew
Todd</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, July 23, 2008 11:38
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: somewhat OT- Acquiring
Education -- was Re: who pays?</DIV>
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<DIV>I think a lot of people take for granted the value of this list, and the
fact that it is free. The information on here is worth a lot.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I use Yahoo Mail, and I have most of your posts categorized in
folders. There may be three, five, or twelve topics regarding "tuning
pins", but they all go in one folder. I am able to search keywords, just
like the archives. If I will be doing a brand new project on the field,
I study the archives intently, and go over the steps in my mind, over and
over.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Attending the guild meetings is a great way to get local help as well,
even if it's just a phone call.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>All of you guys and girls have helped me tremendously, and I can't wait
to meet some of you at next years convention! I want to bring my
autograph book with me, or better yet, can you sign my tuning hammer??</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks again,</DIV>
<DIV>Matthew<BR><BR><B><I>Willem Blees <wimblees@aol.com></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><WBR>Ron<BR><BR>The
Hawaii chapter has been meeting every other month since I got
here last year, (The first time ever that it has ben meeting on a
regular basis), but there are only 6 of us who attend meetings. I talked
with one non-member the other day, and he basically stated that at his stage
of development, (about the same as yours and mine), he really doesn't need
to come to meetings to learn. I have been thinking of putting
together a newsletter to send out to all the tuners on the island, (about 20
of them), to encourage them to come to meetings. I want to ask
permission to use what you just said. Maybe it will encourage some
of them to realize the importance of learning. <BR><BR>On a
similar note, just before he died at the age of 86, I asked my dad if he had
any regrets. His answer was. "I've got so much more to learn". <BR><BR>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Wim<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Ron
Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><BR>To: Pianotech List
<pianotech@ptg.org><BR>Sent: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 7:00 am<BR>Subject: Re:
somewhat OT- Acquiring Education -- was Re: who pays?<BR><BR></DIV>
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I guess that's the difference when you really LEARN something. You >
never forget it. <BR>> > JF <BR> <BR>That's why I don't
understand the people who don't read the list unless they want a specific
answer, and don't seem concerned as to why things work like they do. There
has been a bunch of times something I read here saved my butt years after I
read it, when I had no earthly use for it at the time. People mostly seem to
want isolated lick and stick factoids, specific to the crisis du jour and
expiring on application, rather than long term integrated systems of basic
principles applicable to almost anything. Handing them a "what" may solve
their current problem, but if they care enough to bother to work out the
"why", they can avert a thousand future problems and get into trouble at
much higher and more interesting levels than
before. <BR> <BR>"What you have been obliged to discover by
yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need
arises" <BR>--- G. C. Lichtenberg --- <BR> <BR>"It is little
short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already
completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry" <BR>--- Albert
Einstein --- <BR> <BR>Off to turn over a few rocks, <BR>Ron
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