<HTML>In a message dated 5/11/2002 5:10:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, john@musselwhite.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:Re: improvements Date:5/11/2002 5:10:10 PM Pacific Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:john@musselwhite.com">john@musselwhite.com</A> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet              WHoaaaaaa BOY</BLOCKQUOTE>                No need to be insulting I'm on your side John. What I meant to say is some people are so critical they can't see the forest for the trees. I was a greeing with your post s of last week. Obviously it didn't come across.      I for one happen to make my living rebuilding SSSSSSStwys everday of the week. I also happen to be a fan of the pianos from the C.B.S years you described earlier save the actions. Some of the best boards are in those tainted years.     I can't jump on the got an ax to grind with S & S band wagon. Doesn't mean I agree with every thing they do. But I do know from whence my bills are being paid.    As to the type of in home/field service that your describing  making huge and substantive improvements without gutting the whole thing unnecesarily is part of the business I too am fond of.      The truth is some don't know when not to be critical and frankly I get tired of the S&S bashing that goes on.  We can all have an honest opinion on what is expected from one small piano company, we can even have significant disagreements about there relationship to the technical community but where I part company is to say that there products are largely defective etc etc ad naseum.    John I seem to have touched an accidental nerve and if I'd had the attitude you thought I did I'd be a bit miffed too.   Believe me if you want to know where I stand just ask I'm not one to beat around the bush!     Peace to you.>>>>>>>>>>>Dale>>>>>>>>>>> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> At 10:22 AM 08/05/02 -0400, Dale wrote: >                Some don't know what there critical of. >              Dale Breaking out the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem already, Dale? Is your dislike of this instrument so intense that you have to resort to a veiled, one grammatically incorrect-line insult simply because someone has nice things to say about it for a change? Many of us are out in the field regularly helping the owners of these instruments fall in love with them over and over again. For some of us part of the pleasure we get out of our work comes from using our skills to enhance the beauty of what others may very well think of as an "ugly bride". It's not that "some don't know what to be critical of", it's that they know *when* to be critical of it. Of course, there are also some people who seem to be so critical as to make every bridegroom think his lover has to go in for a facelift, tummy-tuck and breast enhancement just because it has a few birthmarks and doesn't look like a Barbie Doll. They seem to be a lot more vocal than the rest of us and occasionally even make comments like yours. Regards...                  John ... "A piano</BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>