<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:695f236e0808181051t6fdb2b5axf7c71ec8eda34055@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><br> -- <br> I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. <br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com"></a><br> </div> </div> </blockquote> That's a very broad generalization, with bias which is likely not founded in research. One can truly believe piano technology to be a fine, honorable occupation, and yet have other interests which might rival his occupation.  This is based and biased on the research of one, and actually, tuning for major venues brings great satisfaction, and I beg to say is quite worthwhile. Yet I don't wake up every morning thinking the gods made this occupation the  pinnacle of human striving.<br> les bartlett<br> </body> </html>