That's pretty funny, especially coming from someone who loves to send links to flying pianos, burning pianos, etc...seems pretty goof ball to me... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob & Helen Goodale" <rrg at unlv.nevada.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 4/25/2009 9:45:47 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAUT appropriate >Exactly my thought. Sorry if things get a little off topic here but it seems to be the >only "worthy" list going right now. "Pianotech" has gone downright silly and to hell in >a hand basket. I was a member since nearly it's beginning long, long ago. In the old >days it was a worthy list that had a lot of well known reputable people on it. We had >good clean fun too, but you could always post and know that you would be getting >what you came for. For all practical purposes it was the "Piano Tech Cafe" where >techs met for their morning coffee and could have intelligent conversation and also >have a little fun. Then the silly people started to arrive including outside enthusiasts >who are not even technicians. The "good" people slowly abandoned it and the air >grew foul in there. Now I can barely stand it. A while back for whatever unknown >reason it stopped being delivered and I got a message that my email was bouncing. >Eventually it disconnected me automatically and I never bothered to fix it. I started >asking myself "why"? >I am a university tech and therefore belong here, and as Jeff mentioned there are >always things university related things to talk about. It seems otherwise that CAUT >has become very similar to what the OLD pianotech was like years ago which is VERY >refreshing. Now having said that, if someone is daring enough to take the initiative >to start a new list from scratch that is more difficult for outsiders and goof balls to >get onto, I'm all for it. We would need to think of a creative way to keep the wrong >people out, however. >Rob Goodale, RPT >UNLV tech, Las Vegas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Tanner > I'm sorry. If someone has time for pianotech, all they could possibly be doing is >sitting in front of their computer 24-7. I had to leave that list a long time ago. I've >come to think of this list as a more efficient alternative. > If you read through the posts on the CAUT list, it seems to me that only a small >percentage could be defined as being CAUT-only material. If we actually limited this >list to CAUT-only material, we would only be discussing things like dealing with >faculty and administrations, working conditions, salary, job openings, inventory >management, HVAC, scheduling, subbing out work, contract matters and the like. >These are the kinds of issues that make CAUT life different from that of any other >piano technician, and yet, they are rarely discussed here. Everything else (such as >the aural/ETD debate gleaned from CAUT recently published in the PTJ) would >actually belong on the pianotech list, and then, who would have time for pianotech, >for sure? > Jeff
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