New European pianotech subscriber Welcome

[pianoman]

Hello Richard,
Welcome to the greatest list.  I have a son, Joshua, also and he is 22 and
works as a support engineer for my Internet provider.  He also is into
motorcycles, among those he has a Honda CBX which is a 6 cylinder- 6 carb
motorcycle that he is going to restore.
	Yes there is lots of mail and it helps to download and read several times
a day.  A hard job but someone has to do it.  I have been tuning and such
since 1962 and build piano benches on the side.
Be prepared for the coming of vast amounts of piano knowledge and some
silliness.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I'm on my way towards the mighty light of knowledge".

----------
> From: richard jones <fiarich@CompuServe.COM>
> To: pianoutmail <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: New european pianotech subscriber
> Date: Sunday, February 22, 1998 3:06 PM
> 
> Hello everybody, I've just started subscribing to pianotech and I thought
> that I should be polite and introduce myself.
> 
> My name is Richard Jones and I graduated from Newark and Sherwood College
> (U.K.)as a tuner / technician in 1997. I am currently working in Haarlem
> (Holland) for Andriessens Pianos (and Vleugels of course) as a
technician.
> I spend a fair amount of my time there repairing and regulating  mature
> high quality German pianos. 
> 
> I live with my wife Fia and my son Joshua.
> In my spare time I look after my son who is 18 months old, repair
bicycles
> and walk and cycle, ride my motorbike and play the piano badly. Using
email
> is a new interest for me. I do however find it very hard to read all the
> pianotech email. I now subscribe to the digest which does not seem to
have
> helped my problem which is simply the quantity of information involved
> every day. Any ideas anyone ? Do members of the list also write to one
> another directly by email ?  
> 
> I am very happy in this fast moving world to have the privilidge of
working
> with my hands on something which I believe technology cannot beat - the
> piano.
> Isn't it great to have a job you enjoy !
> 
> Look forward to hearing from you 
> 
> Rich
> fiarich@compuserve.com