oops! send apology;Hamburg Hammers -Reply

[Richard Moody]

Horace,
 	You wrote.."it is up to some poor slob to make it into a musical
instrument."

	Are you referring to the player, artist, manufacturer, technician,
the maid with Endust, or the union stage hand who positions it
exactly where the archetects, engineers, and scientists say it should
be? 

	Sorry I couldn't resist.

Richard Moody 
	South Central South Dakota
		(sleepless worring about tornado warnings)
			(Do they have earth quake warnings yet?) 
	Formerly of San Francisco

		"Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall..."
Beatles



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> From: Horace Greeley <hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: oops! send apology;Hamburg Hammers -Reply
> Date: Friday, June 20, 1997 11:46 PM
> 
> 
>
> Our challenge, as one of my mentors used to put it remains the same
today
> as it has been for some time:  "Are you a technician, or a new
parts
> installer?"
> 
> We all tend to work with what we know the best.  What has provided
the
> highest (reasonable) quality consistent with the lowest
(reasonable) cost.
> Manufaturers are no different, except that they have,
propotionately,
> a much higher burden rate to keep their doors open.
> 
> My suggestion is that we each work to build our own technique to
the level
> that it is less a question of what specific hammer (or whatever)
than of what
> we want to do with it.
> 
> That's very, very glib; and, like all generalizations, is full of
holes.
> On the other hand,
> once a piano is together, and whoever did the doing has done it as
well as
> they are
> going to, it is up to some poor slob to make it into a musical
instrument.
> 
> It's Friday, can you tell.
> 
> Have a peaceful and prosperous weekend.
> 
> Horace
> 
> 
>