<HTML>In a message dated 11/24/02 6:23:40 PM !!!First Boot!!!, jgrassi@silverlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">While working today, I couldn't stop thinking about Newton.  Everything I did, I heard his voice saying: "Do it the best you can, and when you think you're good, get better."  Our mentors, instructors, and colleagues, like Newton, who share all that they know, in the hopes that we will become excellent technicians deserve our best effort.  Newton, I promise to keep getting better Jeannie Grassi, RPT </BLOCKQUOTE> Thank you, Jeannie, for sharing this with us. Not only do I do my best every time I work on a piano, I try very hard to read everything that comes across my desk, attend as many seminars and conventions I am able, and pick as many brains as I run into, in an effort to become better at what I do. I though I was a pretty good technician until I attended the Steinway School this summer. What a humbling experience. I can't imagine how any one in the business can ignore the valuable lessons to be learned at chapter meetings seminars, and conventions, not to mention what's in the Journal and on line. It is people like Newton who set the pace. We should do like he did. Thanks Newton, for all you have done. Wim </HTML>