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[Bill Ballard]

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>In a message dated 4/16/2001 7:40:10 PM, you wrote:
>
><<Is this what is known as a rhetorical ramble?  And what is a partical? And
>who sent this unsigned gibberish?
>
>Bob Bergantino, RPT
>Willoughby Hills, Ohio>>
>
>Bob It was Leo Silverman?...our resident (fill in the blank). :-)
>What difference does it make our tuning forks all fall way short of what
>'any' etd can do?
>Jim Bryant (FL)

By his words, ye shall know him. (These ones are better spelled and signed.)


>From: LHSBAND440@AOL.COM
>Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:09:28 EST
>Subject: The Bad News
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Sender: owner-pianotech@ptg.org
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>
>In a message dated 3/16/01 11:21:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>drose@dlcwest.com writes:
>
>
>At 7:09 AM -0500 3/17/01, LHSBAND440@AOL.COM wrote:
>From: LHSBAND440@AOL.COM
>Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:09:28 EST
>Subject: The Bad News
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Sender: owner-pianotech@ptg.org
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>
>>In a message dated 3/16/01 11:21:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>>drose@dlcwest.com writes:
>>
>>
>http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/piano.html
>
>
>
>The bad news is that this is soon to be the future of the piano tuning
>industry.  With ETD's becoming more and more accurate, the common piano
>player will be able to tune a piano to the same accuracy of a good piano
>tuner.  The only saving grace to the piano tuner of the future is that one,
>people won't have the interest to tuning their piano and two, they won't be
>able to afford to purchase a tuning device.  Repair will be the area in which
>the piano technician will still be able to make consistent money.  As ETD's
>develop even more and more it will also be the piano tuner who advances to
>this stage that will be able to keep the profession going.  The days of the
>aural tuner is and will slowly diminish.  How many remember the days when the
>private citizen wasn't able to pump his own gas.  Now, gone is the day when
>the attendant comes out and pumps your gas on a regular fill-up.  This will
>soon be the way of the piano tuning profession.  We will be called by those
>clients that don't care to tune or those who tune their own piano but need a
>repair or something that is beyond their ability to fix.  With the Reblitz
>book on the market and many home correspondence courses this number or people
>who will need us to administer a repair to their piano will also be greatly
>reduced to those who screw it up so bad that they need to call a
>tuner-technician.  I my opinion the rebuilding and restoration area will also
>be the area that the piano tuner-technician will be able to still make
>adequate money.  My suggestions to the future tuners are as follows.  Still
>learn to tune aurally but only concentrate on unisons and octaves, become
>very skilled in the use of an accurate ETD and work toward eye had
>coordination more than ear hand.  I would say 40% ear hand and 60% eye hand.  
>Tune as good and professionally as possible and judge yourself not by the
>letters you have after your name but the number of satisfied customers that
>you retain.  Work on your bench skills for they will be your bread and butter
>for extra income and learn, learn, learn from every piano you work on because
>as the futures progresses the playing field has just been leveled for all
>tuners.  It has to be said and accepted that soon will be the day if not here
>today that anyone can tune a piano and in some cases just as good as the
>experienced professional.
>
>Sincerely,
>Leo Silverman


Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"Come on, a priest and a rabbi?! I think I've heard this one before"
     ...........the Punjabi/Irish barkeep in "Keeping the Faith"
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