>I'm with Wim on this one...the List is beginning to be either never-ending >arguments or non-stop questions from beginning tuners. Hey, I've got an >idea...I'm outa here! > >Bye... > >David I. > David, I would hate to see you go, you have a lot to share with others. I have been thinking about this for a long time, but can only put this in a beginning format, perhaps others will help. Most successful businesses spend a large portion of their budgets on basic research, research into new products, improvements of existing products or methodology, better ways of marketing themselves and their products.... Most piano tuners, however, are so busy getting to the next of today's five or six tunings and then home to phone to confirm tomorrow's schedule, that their research generally has to be limited to a few hours stolen from the production job in the shop, or those brilliant flashes of inspiration that come during the reverie of tuning. And there is _no way_ that they can hire the research scientists in other fields that could shed more light on the problem. _However_ lurking on this list nightly are hundreds of talented and intelligent individuals with diverse backgrounds who now participate in some way in the field of piano technology. They have turned from watching the boob tube to reading "non-stop arguments or questions from beginners" to quote David. How tragic! What a valuable resource we all have at our fingertips!! If only we could find a way to initiate research topics, attract those individuals interested in a given topic to join the team, assign tasks, accept responsibilities, do experiments in our shops and on our jobs, come together in chat rooms to discuss current findings, report preliminary findings back to the general pianotech list, perhaps pick up a piece of valuable insight from someone not on the team who reads that preliminary report...... and maybe someday _revolutionize_ that aspect of our profession for the benefit of all of us. I don't know how to do this, only that it should be possible. I have met many of you, read your messages for a year and a half now, and know that the talent is there and that it is not being challenged. Perhaps some of you out there would have some interest in pursuing these thoughts. My next post to pianotech, which I didn't want to mix in with this because of its personal nature, will describe a piano related research project of modest scope that I am starting because of the needs that have arisen in my business pertinent to my life. I know that there are individuals on pianotech who have knowledge already that would shed light on my questions and I suspect that there are others who might have similiar needs, if not today, perhaps in the next five or ten years. There are many topics that I have been able to identify over the past 22 years and I know that others have also done so. It just seems that pianotech is the best possibility that I have ever seen for joint efforts on research questions that could benefit all. Anyone interested? Diane _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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