<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: newbie questions</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Every piano is PSO Martin <BLOCKQUOTE> From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:34:44 EST To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: newbie questions </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>In a message dated 1/9/01 2:53:05 PM Central Sta= ndard Time, cneuman@phy.duke.edu (Charles Neuman) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE>the bridge on my "PSO" is hard = to reach </BLOCKQUOTE> For starters, I would try to curtail the kind of thinking that would lead y= ou to call your own piano a "PSO".  This is what a person who i= s basically insecure about his or her set of knowledge and skills says.  The idea = is to get others to believe that the person using the term is so high and mighty,= so all knowing, all powerful, having been everywhere and done everything th= at it is beneath dignity to event think of the piano in question as a piano. <= BR> This kind of person often puts up this kind of front because he or she does= not really have an answer to the question, a solution for the problem or ev= en a good, basic set of skills, only a turned up nose.  The problem with = this kind of attitude is that it spreads easily.  Once one person says it, = others join in thinking it is "cool" to have disdain for one's work. &nb= sp;If we all go around calling every piano a "PSO" then other people might believ= e that we all "only do Steinways".  Trouble is, I have seen virtually = *every* brand of piano called a "PSO", even a Steinway and many people I have know= n who make these remarks have turned out to be real phonies, down to the core.  Y= ou can't afford to have that kind of attitude at this or at any time in this <= BR> business. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>