<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Susan. As Will said, there is a difference between a legitimate reason and an excuse, especially when there are more than two of them </div><div><br></div><div>Wim<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 19, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Susan Kline <<a href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> <font size="-1"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Well, Wim, in this case the conflicts are far more often than not. <br> In (2000?) the convention finally was held a week earlier than the <br> festival, and I went to Chicago and attended. (I remember <br> meeting you there.) And I met Guy Nichols there, who is sorely <br> missed.<br> <br> In 2010, they were a week apart, but I was housebound convalescing <br> from Guillain Barre Syndrome. (Double vision, neuropathy, not nice). <br> It did allow Jeff Hickey to stand in for me. He'd been running the <br> convention in Las Vegas, which conflicted with another local festival <br> I always tune for. We had the very devil of a time getting that covered. <br> It showed me that concert tuners are pretty scarce (and VERY busy!) <br> around here. <br> <br> I think what I'm trying to say is that sometimes excuses are true. <br> <br> Susan Kline<br> </font></font><br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:ED9CC21F-30FE-460A-AB58-D2643387752F@aol.com" type="cite"> <div>Susan</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Over the years the convention has been held as early as the middle of June and as late as the end of July. Of course there are always conflicts. But to use 7 different excuses is just a way of saying "the convention isn't worth anything to me". </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Wim</div> <div><br> Sent from my iPhone</div> <div><br> On Jul 17, 2012, at 9:10 PM, Susan Kline <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <font size="-1"><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Well, Wim, there is also one piano tuner who has tuned for a small music festival <br> every year I could for fifteen years. Missed when my mother died in 2004, missed <br> when I was home ill in 2010, otherwise always there. I just got back from it. <br> <br> Now, if PTG would DEIGN to hold its convention EVEN ONCE at a time other than <br> exactly the SAME WEEK in July, I MIGHT BE ABLE TO ATTEND!!! <br> <br> They depend on me. I like them. Even if I were willing to miss their festival, <br> they'd be very hard put to find another qualified tuner the week of the convention. <br> <br> Why is it written that this particular week MUST be the time of the institute <br> every single year? Not a week earlier, not a week later, but always THAT WEEK? <br> <br> frustrated ... <br> Susan Kline, RPT <br> </font></font><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8CF326497B44015-1368-9FAC@Webmail-m108.sysops.aol.com" type="cite"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 3px;"> <pre><tt><tt>Well, Wim, Not everyone can make it to the convention ;-) So there ............. </tt></tt></pre> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Duaine</div> <div> </div> <div>There are piano tuners who say they can't afford to attend the convention. There are piano tuners who say they don't have the time. And there are piano tuners who think the convention is not worth attending. But then there are piano tuners for whom the PTG Annual Convention is THE most important event of the year, and they will do anything to attend. What so ironic is that they keep showing up year after year, because they've somehow found the time and the money to attend. Maybe there's something to that.</div> <div> </div> <div>Attached is an article I wrote after the convention in 1995, which I've updated for this year. But the sentiment is the same.  It probably won't change your mind about not wanting to come to Chicago next year, but it's at least a different perspective of why my wife and I go every year. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim   <br> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Duaine Hechler <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dahechler@att.net"><dahechler@att.net></a><br> To: pianotech <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><pianotech@ptg.org></a><br> Sent: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 7:58 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Pianotech?<br> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;" id="AOLMsgPart_0_c83c45cd-42c9-44f7-9446-613f33ea01ff"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Well, Wim, Not everyone can make it to the convention ;-) So there ............. On 07/17/2012 12:37 PM, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote: > If you would have come to the convention you would have found out. > > Wim :) > > Yes, it will continue for at least another 6 months > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:00 AM, "Joseph Garrett"<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>> wrote: > >> Any news on the destiny of this list? >> Joe >> >> >> Joe Garrett, R.P.T. >> Captain of the Tool Police >> Squares R I >> -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com/" target="_blank">www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</a> -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years </tt></pre> </div> </div> </font></blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </div></blockquote></body></html>