The sad fact is that the number of readers who could digest a well written article and get anything meaningful out of it is so minuscule that they are nearly invisible. Gets discouraging really. The degree of self imposed ignorance out there. For example... I just ran into a local well know pianist who looks on with total disdain anything technical at all about pianos. The second anyone starts trying to explain even the most simple of details... the person starts yawning... and thats in a polite mood :) Yet this same person insists on speaking with authority on a host of subject matters about what is or isnt good for a piano. One of the most interesting ones is that this person states catagorically that any pitch change, or change in voicing... or any change at all really is bad for a piano. Yet products like Damp Chasers are too be scorned as well. Reading our own ranks isnt always so encouraging either when it comes down to it.... no direct criticism meant to anyone in particular... and myself included in the general criticism... but the things we seem to keep re-learning... or re-getting-wrong.... :) Well well... nobody said life was supposed to make sense I guess. Cheers RicB That HAS to be it, or possibly the smallest Giuga number, or maybe the sum of the square of the first four integers. Oh yea, he probably had in mind the number of edges on a dodecahedron, or the atomic number of zinc. Yea, that surely must be it, or maybe it was a half hour till Wapner, or he was looking for change from a buck for a $0.70 purchase. It's a complete mystery! I'm quite sure he couldn't possibly have had in mind anything remotely resembling what he said, and just didn't elaborate, or if he did, it wasn't reported. That couldn't possibly be, so we can forget that right away. Maybe he Reeeeeally meant the number of casters he replaced last century. Yea, that's probably it - or the number of toes on a set of triplets.
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