---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 12/28/00 8:28:25 AM Central Standard Time, =A0 =A0=20 Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no (Richard Brekne) writes: > Weve said this a million times... there is such a thing as a delete button= .=20 > We >=20 No, Richard, they don't have to respond. I have asked them off list not to=20 do so, to just delete my posts if they are disturbed at the very sight of my= =20 name but apparently, they enjoy doing the very thing they are complaining=20 about. My prediction is that not a single one of them, the ones who complain by=20 filling the list with off topic material but who *could* provide useful=20 information or opinions, will do so. I hope that I am proven wrong. But I=20 don't think I will be. It will demonstrate that these people really want th= e=20 List to be a chatroom for piano techs in which detailed information and in=20 depth discussion of opposing opinions is NOT what they want. The trouble with the one that spouts the poetry or philosophy is that it is=20 virtually never connected to anything useful. I read and translate poetry=20 avidly. I enjoy it immensely but it is not really appropriate for this list= =20 unless it is used to underscore some point being made. It has instead been=20 used here as I've outlined before. So, all of these people *could* offer Ola, Phil and others who have question= s=20 about hammer technique or tuning hammer types opinions that would be useful.= =20 Instead, the topic is never addressed or is replied to with a joke such as=20 "Newton has a 3 foot one for that". Horace represented himself to me as the great "teacher" when he came to=20 Madison to give a demonstration at a seminar and right here on this List,=20 while attempting to thoroughly put me down and in my place described himself= =20 as a "*real* concert tuner". If that is so, he must have had experience wit= h=20 all types of tuning hammers and techniques, the way he claims to have had=20 experience with all kinds of temperaments, and has, at this time in his=20 mature life, formed a strong, soundly based opinion on which is best and can= =20 explain in detail why. But he won't, I can assure you. Just the way he didn't with the temperament= =20 issue. He didn't really have an answer, only a posture and so he resorted t= o=20 words that you could hear from any bum on the street corner, not being able=20 to quote any poetry or philosophy to underscore his beliefs. Now, I gave=20 some of my opinions in detail and have more that I can add. But if I do, I=20 will of course be trying to be the "know-it-all", writing posts that are "to= o=20 long" and inflammatory. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b8/70/89/ba/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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