Fred, and others: It's no joke. What is good? What is perfect? What's good enough? Who's there to tell? Who's there who can tell. Driving to the good is intensely moral. Or perhaps ethical is better. This is not a put-down to ministers or anyone else, but a cogent statement which highlights the personal (moral) activity of creating a value. Joke? I think not. Paul In a message dated 6/16/2009 11:11:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time, fssturm at unm.edu writes: On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:27 PM, tcoates1 at sio.midco.net wrote: > I read the quote below to my wife and neither one of us understand > it. My father was a minister and one of my best friends is a > minister. I must not be tuning the right pianos because I don't > consider myself even close to the type of decisions they make. I > really am in awe of piano techs whose tunings truly have moral > implications. Hi TIm, I think the point is that, for the obsessed, rather silly piano technicians, those decisions about where to place some individual note become so important as to become "moral" decisions. It's a poke at how seriously we take our work, when it really doesn't have anywhere near that level of importance. Though from the heat and passion generated in some of the discussions, we certainly give the impression of talking about life and death issues. It's a joke, okay? Poking fun at ourselves and what we do, and our attitude toward it. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu **************Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at your fingertips. (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000004) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090616/0471c963/attachment.htm>
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