Hi, Bruce, Thank you very much for passing this along. Virgil was one of the giants of the profession long before I got started...now more than forty years ago. As you note, he was tireless in trying to raise standards of both training and performance for piano technicians. Even more than the vast gifts he lavished on the profession, though, I will always remember him as a deeply human being...from which all else flows. Peace to All. Horace At 02:38 PM 9/27/2010, you wrote: >Sad news. Virgil Smith passed away this morning. He had given up >tuning and auctioned off all of his tools a few years ago. He was >mentally active up to the end and even came to meetings on occasion, >when someone would bring him and his wheel chair. Virgil gave much >time, effort, and devotion to PTG and did all he could to help bring >up the standards of tuning and voicing. He will be missed here, but >has rejoined many of his loved ones in the better place. > >Bruce Dornfeld, RPT >North Shore Chapter ><mailto:bdornfeld at earthlink.net>bdornfeld at earthlink.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100927/2e8d16c5/attachment.htm>
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