I always love self effacing and truthful self evaluation Les. I get it, we all have different learning styles. My laugh is that I say I am sequentially paired. This is not helpful when needing 88 things to complete a task in the piano world and realize routinely that, oops , I miscounted .....again. Cheers Dale Sent from my iPhone On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:11 PM, "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I have a sister-in-law who is an actual nut case, been through the hospitals > and all, finally managing stability. 22 years ago I said to her "We crazy > people need to stick together." She wasn't amused. Two decades later she's > very glad I said that to her. I managed to get through about four pages of > the exam prep book for the tuning test, and could make it no further. So I > can tell customers "I don't know if I can tune a piano or not." Good for a > few laughs, ice breakers, etc. But I didn't learn a single thing about > tuning from the book. Computers and "directions" just don't work well for > me. I was going to build a 3X4 lean-to under which to roll my lawnmower. > Well I went to the hardware and started piling lumber on the cart, and ended > up with an 8X12 shed with seven foot walls, stronger by far than my house, > and since I didn't know how to do doors, I made an opening I thought was > about right, and built my own doors to fit. But after years of WIN7 coming > out, it's only been in the last month I could actually find the C drive. > It's an embarrassment, but I have some sort of learning disability and a bad > memory to boot, and it would take a great deal of effort to learn the "new > system" which I've seen cursed a number of times on this list. Besides, > Ron, if someone isn't at least mildly crazy, where's the interest in knowing > them. It's the ends of the bell curve I find fascinating, not the mean.... > Les b > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf > Of Ron Nossaman > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 5:26 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks > > On 2/24/2013 5:01 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote: >> Actually it isn't as much nonsense as it seems to be.\ >> Les bartlett > > Nah, you're pretty resilient. You put up with me, don't you? > > > > > Unless there's a scheduled hit I don't know about... > > Ron N >
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