<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com href="mailto:Erwinspiano@aol.com">Erwinspiano@aol.com</A> </DIV> <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> Saturday, September 14, = 2002 6:38 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Imbalance</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 = face="Times New Roman" size=2 FAMILY="SERIF"><I>In a message dated 9/14/2002 5:09:53 AM = Pacific Daylight Time, <A href="mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com">jformsma@dixie-net.com</A> writes:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></I><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">Subj:<B>RE: Imbalance </B><BR>Date:9/14/2002 5:09:53 AM = Pacific Daylight Time<BR>From:<A = href="mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com">jformsma@dixie-net.com</A><BR>Repl= y-to:<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>To:<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR><I>Sent = from the Internet = </I><BR><BR>          Sadly our code of ethics has no real teeth.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 = size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" = face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SERIF"><I>     DALE ERWIN</FONT><FONT = lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 = size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></I><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 = size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT></DIV><FONT lang=0 = style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 = FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"> <DIV>But false teeth are better than no teeth at all!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG<BR>Santa Clara, California<BR><A href="mailto:cmpiano@attbi.com">cmpiano@attbi.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE"><BR>Ed wrote:<BR><BR>>    That is not = a problem.  However, a demonstrable pattern of continued<BR>> insinuations of incompetance and fabrications,  when judged = on<BR>> their ethical content, is.  It does our trade, and our Guild, = no good<BR>> whatsoever to allow such negative ill-will and baseless = derogatory<BR>allegations > as have been openly made to continue.   Such public response<BR>to critique<BR>> = reflects poorly on all of us.   We have an ethics committee, I pay my<BR>dues,and > I intend ask that they review the recent thread = to determine what<BR>appears to<BR>> be obvious violations of the = code of ethics #1 (I will act honorably and<BR>> professionally) by Mr. Bremmer.<BR>> Ed Foote RPT<BR><BR>Please follow through with = this. I don't think Bremmer does PTG much good,<BR>considering how much = excoriation up with which we have to put. It's like the<BR>old saying, "when = he's good, he's very good, but when he's bad, he's<BR>horrid." Lately, good = episodes have been rather rare. Enduring the mostly<BR>horrid times is not = worth whatever "good" may be in his posts.<BR><BR>Sadly,<BR><BR>John M. Formsma<BR>Blue Mountain, MS<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT><FONT = lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Times New Roman" = color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SERIF"><I><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></I></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>