Voting

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List,
>From a distance (I live in Holland), I have read many of these e-mail
letters posted to the list concerning the pro's and contra's of Mr Bremmer.
Indeed, as Jim mentioned, there have been a number of subscribers who
reacted in one way or another, some strongly, others more polite and maybe a
little saddened about the continuation of yet another list-war.
I have forgotten how many times Mr Bremmer has been the cause of these
highly irritating storms on the list, and I have often wondered how indeed
it is possible that "a person" can be so incredibly blind and hardheaded.
If we all left the list, mr Bremmer would be there all alone, and he could
rave and rant, fulminate and spit his fire forever, and maybe he
would(?)....
It is very sad that it has come to this.
I don't know what else to say except that, fortunately, there is an
alternative in the form of "the other list", a friendly place, where I hope
to meet you again.
In the mean time...
Most friendly greetings from,

André Oorebeek



>List;
> This is one of the most valuable assets in the field of piano
>tradespersonship  :-)
>I can only wish that such a valuable asset had been as readily available to me
>back when I first started in the trade. Of course home computers were unheard
>of and we were steadily blowing up rockets trying to get 'something' up in
>space.
>
>  As I was voting today I realized that I had another vote that I had to make
>before the day was over. That vote concerns this list.  Before I left to vote
>I checked the e.mail and came across Mr. Bremmers eloquent post concerning a
>recently established piano list, i.e.; 
>"A perfectly good new list has been created for all the Horse  (explative
>deleted)."
>
>not to mention his insightful thoughts on ET, i.e.;
>
><<"attempting to tune in ET might be called, "Mandating consumption of a vile
>of cryogenically treated hydrogen dioxide while attempting to duplicate
>Helmholtz' 11th comma syntonic*MEANTONE* scale arrangement experiment".">>
>
> And if all goes as usual there will be some who disagree with Mr. Bremmers'
>choice of words, and say so, and then there will be a flurry of "can't we all
>just get along" posts. This of course won't happen until a short period of
>greatly reduced posting because no one wants to get "involved".
>
>  Well it has finally dawned on me that I hold a minority position about the
>inappropiateness, as well as a willingness to say so, of 'some' of Mr.
>Bremmers posts...specifically his choice of language and penchant for making
>personal attacks.  Therefore to continue to stay on this list and contribute
>in any way to allowing Mr. Bremmer continue his, in my opinion, unacceptable
>behavior would be no long be acceptable to myself.
>
>  So it is with extreme saddness that I am going to unsubscribe from pianotech
>and in so doing place my vote against these types of posts which do nothing
>for the list, the piano veterans, piano newcomers, or for PTG in general, and
>in fact are doing harm to the very organization that sponsors the list.
> 
> I am not leaving in anger, nor out of spite, rather as a thoughtful protest
>to Mr. Bremmers' behavior and the general lack of support for any views
>expressed in opposition to his uncivility. 
>
>I have enjoyed sharing experiences, theories, questions, solutions, and even
>the off topics, with the list in general. The list, and its members, has my
>sincere wishes that it may continue to devlop into an ever greater resource
>for all.
>
> So with that I vote 'no', to behavior such as Mr. Bremmers, and say goodbye
>to pianotech.
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>"we are what we do for the doing makes us what we are"
>