This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear Bill, This subject is about credit cards and the use there off. If you want to change the subject please do so in the subject line, I = can't find any reference to CC in your rave. The fact that you say you have received no complaints could also mean = that your customers are all blonde. Tony ----- Original Message -----=20 From: SidewaysWell1713@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Credit Cards In a message dated 11/5/02 11:11:23 PM Central Standard Time, = davidlovepianos@earthlink.net writes: they would allow someone to contest the charge if, say, they decided they weren't happy with our choice of temperament = (levity BB, levity),=20 I've accepted them for years, usually a few transactions per month. = To date, after 10 years of tuning mostly the EBVT and a total of 13 = years of never once tuning ET, I have never had a single customer ask me = to tune the piano !!!!!!BACK!!!!!! to ET. In the earlier years before I = came up with the EBVT idea, I did have a few people who asked for = something milder at the next tuning. This is one of the factors that = lead to the development of the EBVT which has never once received a = complaint. This, of course, in spite of what Ed Foote had to say about it. I you = were to believe him, the entire audience of technicians at both the 1998 = Temperament Festival and the repeat demonstration in Chicago in = September 1999 were *duped* into thinking that in Ed's own words, a = temperament with "very poor harmonic balance" and octaves that "don't = make sense at all" sounded acceptable enough to prevail over Virgil = Smith's ET. I regularly do concert tunings at places where I am the chosen = technician because of the positive responses from the artists. I'm = tuning 6 pianos today, one of them for a public performance and = traveling to a town 50 miles away to tune 3 of them for a group of = clients who want only what I have to offer. I still use the same = programs I developed as long as 9 years ago, the programs Ed Foote = ridiculed and the very same, unchanged programs which were demonstrated = at those PTG functions. I have now put on my website my irrevocable = answer to Ed Foote for all who visit my website to read. I've seen quite a few good and informative posts by Ed Foote recently. = It shows how well and positively he can write when he is not consumed = by jealousy over the obvious mediocrity of his tuning skills when = compared to mine. Ed Foote wants to be a leader in his field but it is = not going to happen by simply ridiculing what I do and copying numbers = out of books. "Sideways Well": the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the = day he knowingly published false data for the EBVT on Pianotech.=20 Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =3D-=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/79/f9/58/3b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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