A Matter of Attitude (was Re: low quality, and high quality)

[Richard Brekne]

"Z! Reinhardt" wrote:

> Isn't our *bottom line* the essence of the Japanese proverb:
>
> Promote happiness.  The money will follow.
>
> I think the question is now where we feel most comfortable promoting the
> happiness.  There are technicians who prefer rural livingrooms over big
> city concert stages.  And there are concert techncians who enjoy the
> occassional livingroom, and so on.
>
> I for one love working on concert stages, especially in historic theatres
> ... but one of my favorite clients is a very poor family with what is
> probably the worst piano in my customer base.  They knew from the start
> that it was the cheapest of the cheap, but it was what they could afford.
> I've always done what I could for that thing to make it workable for an
> unusually talented son to practice on without blowing out the family
> budget.  The other day I got a message from the son -- he is "going for
> broke" and getting a vastly superior piano, perhaps later this month.  His
> question to me was would I continue being his technician?  Of course and
> I'm flattered!
>
> Z! Reinhardt RPT
> Ann Arbor  MI
> diskladame@provide.net
>
> ----------
> From: cjbond@geocities.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: low quality, and high quality
> Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 10:32 AM
>
> >>snip<<
>
> I've "revived" many a piano to the delight of
> low-income owners who couldn't be more thrilled their child can take
> piano lessons.  >>snip<< I like the challenge of fixing these pianos.
>
> Everyone has their own little niche to fill in this business.  There's
> plenty of room for all our areas of interest without having to criticize
> each other.
>
> Julie B.

I get the feeling this was Bill Bremmers point, more or less. Tho perhaps a
bit overstated. :)