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<DIV>Dear Bill,</DIV>
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<DIV>This subject is about credit cards and the use there off.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you want to change the subject please do so in the subject line, =
I can't
find any reference to CC in your rave.</DIV>
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<DIV>The fact that you say you have received no complaints could also =
mean that
your customers are all blonde.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tony</DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=SidewaysWell1713@aol.com
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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> Thursday, November 07, =
2002 12:05
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Credit Cards</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">In a message dated 11/5/02 11:11:23 PM Central =
Standard
Time, <A
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href="mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net">davidlovepianos@earthlink.n=
et</A>
writes:<BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">they would allow someone to contest the charge =
if,<BR>say, they
decided they weren't happy with our choice of temperament =
(levity<BR>BB,
levity), </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I've accepted them for years, usually =
a few
transactions per month. To date, after 10 years of tuning mostly =
the
EBVT and a total of 13 years of never once tuning ET, I have never had =
a
single customer ask me to tune the piano !!!!!!BACK!!!!!! to ET. =
In the
earlier years before I came up with the EBVT idea, I did have a few =
people who
asked for something milder at the next tuning. This is one of =
the
factors that lead to the development of the EBVT which has never once =
received
a complaint.<BR><BR>This, of course, in spite of what Ed Foote had to =
say
about it. I you were to believe him, the entire audience of =
technicians
at both the 1998 Temperament Festival and the repeat demonstration in =
Chicago
in September 1999 were *duped* into thinking that in Ed's own words, a =
temperament with "very poor harmonic balance" and octaves that "don't =
make
sense at all" sounded acceptable enough to prevail over Virgil Smith's =
ET.<BR><BR>I regularly do concert tunings at places where I am the =
chosen
technician because of the positive responses from the artists. =
I'm
tuning 6 pianos today, one of them for a public performance and =
traveling to a
town 50 miles away to tune 3 of them for a group of clients who want =
only what
I have to offer. I still use the same programs I developed as long as =
9 years
ago, the programs Ed Foote ridiculed and the very same, unchanged =
programs
which were demonstrated at those PTG functions. I have now put =
on my
website my irrevocable answer to Ed Foote for all who visit my website =
to
read.<BR><BR>I've seen quite a few good and informative posts by Ed =
Foote
recently. It shows how well and positively he can write when he =
is not
consumed by jealousy over the obvious mediocrity of his tuning skills =
when
compared to mine. Ed Foote wants to be a leader in his field but =
it is
not going to happen by simply ridiculing what I do and copying numbers =
out of
books.<BR><BR>"Sideways Well": the pit Ed Foote dug for himself =
to
wallow in the day he knowingly published false data for the EBVT on =
Pianotech.
<BR><BR>Bill Bremmer RPT<BR>Madison, Wisconsin<BR><A
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