Is it really necessary to intentionally place an insult Israel? You're obviously not willing to discuss this rationally and it is very obvious you miss my points and completely by-pass them altogether for the sake of being right rather than having an honest discussion. With that mentality, the discussion becomes useless. Jer Groot RPT From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Israel Stein Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:06 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Becket Alignment - sub-topic of Tuning pin height And once again, reason triumphs over hysteria! Well said, David. Except that one fellow who insists on posting in blue still can't figure out the difference between cosmetics and functionality, and insists on the connection between becket alignment and general workmanship. Israel Stein Monday, October 5, 2009 2:26:23 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific David Love wrote: I don’t think anyone was really arguing that non aligned beckets means that the rest of the job was sloppy and not up to par, it’s just that craftsmanship, attention to cosmetic detail, creates an impression. That impression may be totally false in both directions, as we’ve pointed out, but it does create an impression. I certainly wouldn’t reject a piano that was otherwise terrific because the beckets didn’t line up but a customer might notice the small details of craftsmanship or lack of them and it might influence their decision to buy it or not regardless of what I said. When I look at a piano, or listen to one, and it sounds great I don’t necessarily focus in on a poorly laid out bridge or uneven offsets. It doesn’t probably make a functional difference. But I notice it and it can’t help but form an impression of the workmanship. So, my reading of the posts is that everyone agrees that beckets that are not perfectly lined up doesn’t mean the job is sub par but if I were training an apprentice I would tell them to pay attention to what on the surface seem like insignificant little cosmetic details. Not at the expense of something else more important, but in general because the impression you leave with each job can influence your ability to score future work. Whether that’s fair and or reasonable on the part of the consumers I don’t know. But it’s a fact. David Love _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091004-0, 10/04/2009 Tested on: 10/5/2009 7:42:27 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091005/327d15da/attachment.htm>
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