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[pianoman]

Boy, I sure hope it was my post that helped him decide to unsubscribe. 
	 Maybe with Walt Disney influencing him he will come back warm and cuddly.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Success is not a goal, rather it is a way of life".

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> From: Billbrpt@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: No need to delete
> Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 7:35 PM
> 
> Dear List,
> 
>     So sorry to disappoint you, but I'll just have to unsubscribe again
for a
> while.  I'm just far too busy doing all these illegal, immoral tunings
that I
> will have no time in the next week to read and respond to all of the
wonderful
> insights of this List.
> 
>    I'll also be out of town from the 19-27, meeting with Walt Disney
> productions on a major project.  Yes, sorry to say, they are interested
in
> what I do and write and we'll be screwing around with yet another tale of
> classic literature and writing inappropriate music for it.  Don't you
just
> HATE that?  I'll be hating it too, all the way to the bank!  (To
paraphrase
> Liberace, who always kept an Acrosonic in his dressing room).
> 
>     Just remember that ET and ET only is the only acceptable, normal,
healthy
> and legal way to tune a piano.  It doesn't matter what kind of music it
is or
> what kind of piano.  ET is what you do and what the customer expects.
> Remember this too if you go on one of those trips to Cuba.  A440 with not
even
> 1¢ deviation will be expected.  If you do not do the commie law (whoops,
I
> mean "common law") tuning, you'll have to answer to Fidel himself for it.
> You'll have a lot of explaining to do if your 3rds aren't perfectly even
and
> your 5ths don't all sound like they're virtually pure.  After all, every
one
> knows Cuban music, like all music, REQUIRES absolute and unequivocal ET,
no
> tolerances!  When you are asked to tune a "poorly scaled" spinet,
remember to
> publicly condemn the manufacturer and make the customer feel like a fool
for
> having purchased it.
> 
>     This, my friends, is the way of the List.
> 
>     Your faithful and observant friend,
>      Bill