Darn, Jim!! After hearing this I canceled my plans to attend the convention. Your class was the whole reason for going. When they put the (E) for everyone I thought "now's my chance". To be privy to such high learning has always been my dream and this typo was my foot in the door! When will such a an opportunity come my way again? It's not easy, I say, for someone with my a low level of education to slip into an advanced class at the "Once in Life Time - Big Deal" convention. No, not at all. Those hall monitors - or whatever you call them - are mighty tough, and nasty too I might add. One time, while trying to sneak into a high level class on plastic elbow freezing, they demanded to check my credentials. Sweating and shaking I did all I could do; I flashed the little PRT pin I bought at that convention were everyone got sick as a dog from the hotel food. "Hell, its Hartman again," Said the big one with the trendy keyboard bow tie. "I seen him before tryin to get into that class on the secrets of the super glues. When are you going to learn, ha?" Said the short one with the few hairs shy of a true Trump comb-over. "What do ya say Dan? I bet this guy doesn't know the difference between a longitudinal wave and one of them transverse thingies?" "Hey just a minute guys," in my mind I was making a fast retreat back to the safe haven of the exhibit hall," I was just stopping to tie my shoe." "Yea right, I don't see no 'A' after that RPT just a measly 'E'." I will stop this account at this point. All I can say is that what followed was not nice, neat or even sanitary. Till this day I haven't found the nerve to crack the lid on spinet and the scent of freon gas makes me queasy. So this summer instead of attending the "Big Cheese" I will be hitting the books. I plan on finding out about the moment of inertia and the bending moments in beams. After all, I have just a moment learn. I better bone up on all that Latin and Greek talk so I can poly voo such terms at transverse and distal. Well wait a minute, first I need to learn to read. That's going to be way hard! >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: Longitudinal Modes in Piano Strings >> >> >> On page 14 of the program for the 2004 Institute in Nashville, >> which you received in the mail, my class, "Longitudinal Modes in >> Piano Strings" is listed as (E) for "Everyone". It is not. It is >> at the "Advanced" level, and I plainly marked it as such. I do not >> know who changed it, or why. >> >> Sincerely, Jim Ellis > John Hartman RPT John Hartman Pianos [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015] Rebuilding Steinway and Mason & Hamlin Grand Pianos Since 1979
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