need some opinions

[piano57 at comcast.net]

I agree with Ron.  And I thought we were talking tuning stability here--not all the other what-ifs.  Personally, I would not be very inclined to engage the services of a person who sent me a nasty note, told me "to poo poo or get off the pot" or "get off my butt."  

Barbara Richmond, RPT 
near Peoria, IL 
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From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net> 

> Yeah, I don't see the ruining the pianos part either...but Les's partner in 
> crime might really like file new hammers to get the voicing right... 
> Ron, did you take your pill today? 
> 
> David Ilvedson, RPT 
> Pacifica, CA 94044 
> 
> ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- 
> From: "Ron Nossaman" 
> To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net, "Pianotech List" 
> Received: 7/4/2008 8:25:34 PM 
> Subject: Re: need some opinions 
> 
> > 
> >> Uh, would it be smart to say that there is no bottom to the well of 
> >> human stupidity. 
> 
> >If not PC, yes. 
> 
> 
> >>I have gone to great pains to educate the pianist at 
> >> this church, and she's getting all these posts. I wrote her a nasty note 
> >> yesterday which resulted in a long conversation about, well the director 
> >> is new, and there are this and that, and so forth. I said to her, "It's 
> >> time to poopoo or get off the pot, because you are about to get an 
> >> instrument at $100K plus and two seven foot instruments, and you know 
> >> more than 90%of the performing artists about a piano, so the time is now 
> >> to get off your butt and get this resolved because you're going to ruin 
> >> three brand new instruments with this 'share the wealth' policy." 
> 
> >Concept alert! Ruin!!?? Hold on here. Do I understand this 
> >right, that you are trying to sell the concept that having 
> >techs other than you tuning the pianos will ruin them??? Just 
> >who the Hell do you think you are that anyone else other than 
> >you tuning these pianos will "ruin" them? I've seen a lot of 
> >ego fired into the sky on this list, expecting a celestial 
> >display with an indeterminate powder charge, but this is 
> >asking a whole lot! Les, get real! 
> 
> >>She 
> >> understood, so I told her I had put the situation on Pianotech and she 
> >> would have a lot of documentation from good people........ it has 
> >> happened. Thanks 
> >> les 
> 
> >Hopefully, she won't contact me. 
> >Ron N 
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