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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey Wim,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good answer! Your director is
correct!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Elwood</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Elwood Doss, Jr.<BR>Technical Director/Piano =
Technician<BR>Department of
Music<BR>University of Tennessee at
Martin<BR>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<BR></DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Wimblees@aol.com =
href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@aol.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 13, 2003 =
11:27
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: My mistake.....my
lesson....a cautionary tale</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">In a message dated 1/13/03 10:21:03 AM Central =
Standard
Time, <A href="mailto:bigda@gte.net">bigda@gte.net</A> =
writes:<BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">She said, "Well, you've killed the middle of the
piano...." and I saw <BR>all the trust and good will leave her =
body,
and leave the situation. She <BR>then made continual =
over-the-top,
apocryphal statements about the piano <BR>being dead, the hammers =
being
"gone," the "quality" being "gone out of <BR>the
piano."<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I haven't been tuning for artists =
all that
long, but I do remember either reading on this list, or maybe it was =
something
my director once told me (he's a concert artist), that the better the =
artist,
the less they will complain about the piano. The artists that complain =
the
most don't know what they want, and will blame the piano for their own =
inequities. <BR><BR>Glad to know you're feeling better.<BR><BR>Wim
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