Chicago Convention

[Don]

Hi Bill,

Your "rant" would be better placed on PTGL which is a closed list.

At 12:13 PM 3/14/02 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 3/14/02 10:41:55 AM Central Standard Time, A440A@AOL.COM
>writes: 
> 
> 
> by side comparisons with ET have  
>never failed to waken significant percentages of listeners to the added  
>resources of the WT's, and in my experience of the last 9 years, this
applies  
>to technicians, teachers, and pianists alike.
>  
> 
>  "There's no room", "not enough interest", "too much stress"...etc. 
> 
>Now, they can provide for full day or multiple day presentations on
>rebuilding but what percentage of piano technicians are involved with or
>even interested in rebuilding vs. the percentage interested in tuning
>advancement? 
> 
>     This, with only word of mouth and passing out flyer advertising. 
> 
>    To even get my tuning done, I had to endure repeated harassment from
>Wally Brooks who is well known for his hatred of the very idea of what he
>calls, "Hysterical Temperaments" and "tuning the piano out of tune". 
> 
>Any complaint about this brings the usual, "I tune HT's myself", "we've had
>that before", "we have 4 classes on this subject" (but 5 on player pianos)
>[the kind with the paper rolls], "we're all volunteers, you wouldn't
>believe the amount of work we do, blah, blah blah..." 
> 
>  Haven't you gotten any lately? 
> 
>Bill Bremmer RPT 
>Madison, Wisconsin 
> Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-  

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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