Patrick said: "A few years before I moved back to Massachusetts, Ken and Dave Hagberg of the Boston Chapter had a batch of campaign buttons made up that read (in big letters) "SOS!" and the small letters filled out the message "Stamp Out Spinets!" I think they handed them out at a New England regional seminar." Patrick, IMNSHO, SOS should stand for Same Old Stupid!<G> The much maligned spinet does not deserve such negativity. This coming Monday, I'll be giving a class to my Chapter on How To Improve The Spinet. They are capable of being improved, believe it or not! Of course, there are bad spinets, just like there are bad Uprights, Grands, Overdamper Uprights, Square Grands and even Harpsichords!<G> The reality is this: If it weren't for spinets, most beginning piano tuners would have given up and found another job, because that's the majority of what they were given to tune!!! Even after my many years, I still do quite a few and am glad for the bucks, since the money's the same! (even tho most spinets are harder to tune than most other critters) The spinets of the 70's were not even a shadow of the ones of the 30's and 40's. The early versions were, mostly, well made and even had reasonable scales in them.Not to mention, some even had Ivory Key Tops! If all of the spinets disappeared today, there would be alot of out of work tuners! Think about it! 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/20100925/da377b68/attachment.htm>
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