Now Carl, who am I going to trade sick jokes with if you don't show up at conventions? How's this for the title of your book: "Cry Me a Pearl River" or perhaps "Hammer Down, Good Buddy." Well, bon chance, take it easy, and enjoy yourself. I always say: Life is far too important to take seriously. Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Carl Meyer Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 5:54 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: retirement This is to all the friends and enemies I've made on the list. No, I'm not going away, even if some of you think I should. I'm pushing 75 from the wrong direction and my get up and go has got up and gone. I have made the decision to quit teaching classes (except perhaps locally), not to go to anymore conventions, drop my insurance and soon my ptg membership. My priorities are changing. I have sleep apnea, don't like to travel anymore and have a level of heart failure. I may try to write a book entitled "Why I'm growing old kicking and screaming rather than gracefully". Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not disgruntled, PO'ed or anything. I just can't justify a level of participation like before. My sense of humor is still intact, so don't vex me! I consider all of you my friends, in spite of the disagreements I've had with some. Now!! Let me tell you about my present project. For you who don't know about it, there is a site called Pianocorder Resources. It describes how Mark Fontana did a Masters thesis on archiving the music available in the pianocorder to MIDI. many years ago. Now he has written a plug in to the Win amp program to convert MIDI back to Pianocorder format so that with the proper adapter you can play all the Pianocorder songs plus many other or any midi on your pianocorder. I've rescaled/restrung a 1903 Mason/Hamlin upright, installed a pianocorder, and am now playing my choice of about 50000 midi files. Great sport! I'm not finished with the action yet. It needs new hammers, dampers and regulation. I decided not to refinish it so that I wouldn't be tempted to sell it. I've hardwired it but a wireless is available. I have some questions about the hammers. Subject of my next post! Thanks all. Carl Meyer PTG assoc Santa Clara, Ca. _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 03/09/2005 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 03/09/2005
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