The sad fact is that the number of readers who could digest a well
written article and get anything meaningful out of it is so minuscule
that they are nearly invisible. Gets discouraging really. The degree of
self imposed ignorance out there. For example... I just ran into a local
well know pianist who looks on with total disdain anything technical at
all about pianos. The second anyone starts trying to explain even the
most simple of details... the person starts yawning... and thats in a
polite mood :) Yet this same person insists on speaking with authority
on a host of subject matters about what is or isnt good for a piano.
One of the most interesting ones is that this person states
catagorically that any pitch change, or change in voicing... or any
change at all really is bad for a piano. Yet products like Damp Chasers
are too be scorned as well.
Reading our own ranks isnt always so encouraging either when it comes
down to it.... no direct criticism meant to anyone in particular... and
myself included in the general criticism... but the things we seem to
keep re-learning... or re-getting-wrong.... :)
Well well... nobody said life was supposed to make sense I guess.
Cheers
RicB
That HAS to be it, or possibly the smallest Giuga number, or
maybe the sum of the square of the first four integers. Oh
yea, he probably had in mind the number of edges on a
dodecahedron, or the atomic number of zinc. Yea, that surely
must be it, or maybe it was a half hour till Wapner, or he was
looking for change from a buck for a $0.70 purchase. It's a
complete mystery! I'm quite sure he couldn't possibly have had
in mind anything remotely resembling what he said, and just
didn't elaborate, or if he did, it wasn't reported. That
couldn't possibly be, so we can forget that right away. Maybe
he Reeeeeally meant the number of casters he replaced last
century. Yea, that's probably it - or the number of toes on a
set of triplets.
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