<HTML>In a message dated 1/5/01 6:53:51 PM Central Standard Time, hgreeley@stanford.edu (Horace Greeley) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">would one rather have such a lab?  Or, a room full of 50's/60's vintage Wurlitzer and/or Kimball consoles to try to keep in tune?  I am not sure which is more frustrating....except that, as one very well known technician once said:  "Tuning a Kimball is like trying to nail Jello to a wall" - so, one starts tuning, and, when the big hand goes around once, one stops and moves on, without having to worry about anything electronic.</BLOCKQUOTE> This is exactly what I mean, folks.  I'm sure there are abundant numbers of piano technicians out there who have not had the kind of lofty career described by this man who could figure out how to tune and maintain a group of Kimball 42" Consoles and have no trouble at all doing so.' It takes only the most basic set of skills, common sense and common knowledge. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>