<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 4/2/01 12:33:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
<BR>Erwinpiano@email.msn.com (Erwinpiano) writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Wow ,Bill You need to lighten up and learn to take things in the humorous
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<BR>As has often happened, people seem to be quick to read some kind of
<BR>hell-bent, highly inflamed, screaming at the top of the lungs emotion into
<BR>what I write when in reality, I have done exactly what you suggested above.
<BR>Off topic posts often get out of hand. Perhaps next time you "can't resist"
<BR>forwarding something to the Pianotech List which has nothing to do with
<BR>pianos, maybe you'll remember what the consequences can be.
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<BR>The "Baloney Bunch" that others referred to is what I called the people who
<BR>used to spout misinformation and their own outrage about the use of unequal
<BR>temperaments. While I was consistently accused of being inflammatory, I did
<BR>pretty much the opposite, restraining myself by using such words as "Baloney"
<BR>rather than resort to all of the vulgarities that were directed at me.
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<BR>I was raised in Los Angeles and still have family there. Yes, I am a
<BR>conservative, having been a Registered Republican now for 30 years. If you
<BR>ask me, Californians want to have it both ways. They want a modern, consumer
<BR>lifestyle that depends on unlimited availability of energy and water but they
<BR>don't like to see those ugly old power plants and oil refineries and don't
<BR>want any air pollution.
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<BR>They have painted themselves into a corner by not continuing to build upon
<BR>the necessary infrastructure, so now they are in deep trouble. I'm just glad
<BR>we elected a president and vice president who have some common sense about
<BR>what it will take to supply California because it's true that if it has
<BR>serious problems, it will drag the rest of the country into them too. It can
<BR>even have an effect on the Piano industry because all of the import
<BR>facilities for Asian pianos are there. We don't need any influences which
<BR>will drive the prices of pianos any higher than they already are.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>