Average person's perception....

[David Ilvedson, RPT]

Robin,

Here it is several thousand square miles of humanity but lots of pianos.

David I.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Blankenship <itune@firstsaga.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: Average person's perception....


>For me, it is the stillness that allows the beauty to wash the soul.
>Southside Virginia is several thousand square miles of quiet and
>contemplative beauty. Gently rolling land, dark forests, ancient farm
>fields, empty roads. Good for the soul.
>
>David, thank you for sharing this very personal moment and insight.
>
>Robin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: David Ilvedson, RPT <ilvey@jps.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:34 PM
>Subject: Re: Average person's perception....
>
>
>> Patchy clouds with some sunlight coming through.  Not very cold here
right
>> now.  Very still at that moment.  Seagulls screeching...Winter here is
>mild
>> but usually wet.  Hasn't been very wet yet.  We have the bare trees but a
>> lot of cypress which keeps it looking green.  It was just a very
beautiful
>> moment.
>>
>> David I.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robin Blankenship <itune@firstsaga.com>
>> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
>> Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: Average person's perception....
>>
>>
>> >David,
>> >What is the winter sky like in San Fran? I lived for a year in San
Diego.
>> We
>> >didn't have a winter sky. Then again, we didn't have a winter, either.
On
>> >the mid-East Coast, a winter sky means low, gloomy overcast. A pale
gray.
>A
>> >bleak scan of bare trees. Upturned soil in the fields. Stubble. Brown.
>> Calm.
>> >Cold.
>> >
>> >Robin
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: David Ilvedson, RPT <ilvey@jps.net>
>> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>> >Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:46 PM
>> >Subject: Re: Average person's perception....
>> >
>> >
>> >> I can't imagine doing anything else...
>> >>
>> >> Today I went into San Francisco to three commercial accounts
>> (restaurants)
>> >> and one new one at Fort Mason at a theatre on the Bay not far from the
>> >> Golden Gate Bridge.  When I was done I packed up my tools and sat down
>on
>> >> the pier and just took it all in...seals swimming below me, Winter
>> >sky...its
>> >> a hard life...........
>> >>
>> >> David I.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
>> >> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
>> >> Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:12 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: Average person's perception....
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >"David Ilvedson, RPT" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> When I was 23, with hair down to middle of my back, I told my
father
>I
>> >> was
>> >> >> interested in piano tuning.  He said "piano tuning"?   But he was
>> smart
>> >> >> enough and desperate enough to shut his mouth and call the local
>> >Baldwin
>> >> >> piano dealer who referred him to PTG in Seattle who recommended WIT
>in
>> >> Sioux
>> >> >> City, Iowa.  The rest is history folks...well. my history
>anyway...;-]
>> >> >>
>> >> >> David I.
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >So what do you think after all these years ??  Would you do things
>> >> differently
>> >> >if you had the chance to do it all over ?? I kinda fell into piano
>work
>> >by
>> >> >accident way back when... all in all.... the best thing that ever
>> >happened
>> >> to
>> >> >me. Still... if there was one thing I could go back and change it
>would
>> >be
>> >> my
>> >> >lack of interest for school and in particular math and science as a
>kid.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >--
>> >> >Richard Brekne
>> >> >RPT, N.P.T.F.
>> >> >Bergen, Norway
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
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