Duaine "The Heckler" said: "I probably would attend more conventions - if - there were more classes pertaining to what I do - player pianos (pneumatic) and reed organs. Since this is getting to be a lost art, I would love to see the Journal put back a series / forum for pneumatic players Plus, a lot of piano techs - ignore - players like the plague - won't even tune them - for fear of the unknown. Now, that's we need, a convention class on how to approach player fears and put them behind you enough to tune them." -- Duaine, By your own admission(s), you have said you don't know much about the constuction of a piano. It is evident that you know quite a bit about the old players. It is also evident that you know very little about the "heart" of those Players! How about going to a convention and taking classes that are relevant to the piano and not the player? You would then be a more competent "Technician" IMO. Even, (gasp), taking a few classes and regulation and modern type players, such as the disklaviers!??? Oh, I guess that is too much advanced thinking, but it's worth consideration, since most of us pianer techs "..ignore - players like the plague -won't even tune them - for fear of the unknown"!!! My gosh, sounds like you are very much "afraid of the unknown" to me!!!!!! Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100519/f0218573/attachment.htm>
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