This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment David: =20 My first job after graduating from college was as staff musician at a = radio station in Chicago. Virgil Smith tuned our two studio "L"s every = Friday. Often he'd tune them and leave but on occasion when he was = finished he'd come get me to show that they were really good. To me, a = non-technician at that time, they always sounded good. Yet, at certain = times he felt that he had zen'd them. =20 =20 I'm sure you've felt that way at times. When you tune a piano that = you've zen'd in the past, yet today it's just tuned, do you ever wish = you'd been able to record the extraordinary tuning so you could = duplicate it on those days when you ate too much pizza for lunch or = whatever? Have you ever considered an ETD to record the extraordinary = tunings? =20 =20 Virgil was instrumental in my getting in this business though I'm sure = he was unaware of it. He used to tell me then that if I ever left there = I wouldn't get pianos tuned like he did them! At the time it seemed to = me a statement of arrogance. However, after I did leave there I didn't = find pianos tuned like he tuned them! Twelve years later I realized his = statement was not arrogance but rather a confidently truthful statement. = I set my goal then to do the kind of work Virgil did. I won't claim to = have achieved that goal, but at least I aimed high. =20 dp =20 __________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@smu.edu ________________________________ From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org on behalf of David Andersen Sent: Wed 11/16/2005 2:58 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Feedback appreciated Hi, folks----I got a beautiful letter from Virgil Smith today about my = tuning article in this month's Journal; I'm so happy he liked it, and it = gave me a thrill to be acknowledged by him. What did you guys think of it? I'd love some feedback, praise, scorn, = whatever....... David Andersen=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 6829 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bd/bc/3b/45/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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