Nicely said, Brian. (More comments below.) At 06:11 PM 01/06/01 -0500, you wrote: >Greetings Ed, > >I have no problem with your way of looking at things at all. > >We are all different. Some of us like more variety. Some of us enjoy >becoming more familiar with a particular brand or two. Some of us like >tuning. Some of us like shop work. Some like the concert stage. Some like >sales and marketing. > >I would never consider telling a heart specialist that he was less of a >doctor because he didn't work on ingrown toenails. I wouldn't think of >telling a podiatrist that he was less of a doctor because he didn't do brain >surgery. > >Different people have different callings in life. We all have different >areas of this work that bring us more satisfaction and enjoyment than >others. > >Live and let live. I like Jon's comments about working with other >professionals in his area, sending them the tunings he doesn't want, and in >turn having them send him the shop work they don't want. Not everyone wants >to be a "general practitioner". For those who do, God bless you, you are >certainly valuable members of our trade. For those who enjoy a 'specialty', >God bless you as well. You're no less valuable because you don't "do >everything", but valuable in that you do some important things very well. This is basically what I now do. Part of it _is_ that I don't want to do those kinds of pianos any more. I did them for over 20 years and learned a LOT from doing so. Mostly though, it's because of my university job. With 126 pianos and hundreds of concerts and recitals each semester, I just don't have the time to do much off-campus work. But when I do, I now want it to be on an instrument I enjoy working on and working with the customer to bring it up to its fullest potential, re: regulating, voicing, etc. >Just my $0.02 > >Brian Trout >Quarryville, PA >btrout@desupernet.net Avery
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