Theodore, list, I agree that there is a chance for confusion with the terminology used for various levels of piano work. At 07:10 PM 11/5/97 -0500, you wrote: >The Piano Technicians Guild MUST get these terms defined. Is it really in the realm of the Guild to do this? >With my 20+ years in this buisness I CANNOT tell you what any of them >mean with a fair degree of certainty. Oh, but don't you have your own ideas that you use when presenting options to your customers? >They ALL mean different things to you >guys too. Maybe not as different as you might think...... > I am familiar with one member who re-manufactures, the factory says >"only the factory can re-manufacture," Who IS telling the truth???? Which factory? Isn't a major rebuilding shop a "factory" in it's own right? >I think >that the PTG should and MUST set the standard for these terms. Again, why PTG? And how would the standards be enforced? Perhaps a "suggested guideline" might be more in order. How about yours? Could you perhaps share your basic outline of what the nomenclature and levels of re-whatever might be? > The >legalities have come up occasionally but how many times have you heard that a >piano has been RE-BUILT Only to see that the most that has been done to it >was MAYBE cleaned. One technician rebuilds, the competator says it eas >re-conditioned NOT re-built. Oh, yeah. Seen some amazing "rebuilds". Love it when a customer tells me that "YOU" rebuilt it, back when, based on the recollection that whatever was done cost at least twice what the current every-four-years-whether-it-needs-it-or-not-pitch raise costs. >WHO is lying???? Maybe nobody.... remember.... they don't know the terms! :^) >Someone must be!!! Do YOU >know????????/ No, of course not. I trust everybody......... > Theodore Mamel RPT > Pittsburgh Chapter Guy Guy Nichols, Member, PTG nicho@lascruces.com "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert Einstein
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