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The Music Trade Review
MAY, 1930
learn them. I have said, and I say again, that
the Tuner's Association is wasting time and
energies which can never be replaced, perpetu-
Charles Walter Beach has taken me rather ating these silly quarrels. Personal recrimina-
severely to task for my observations upon the tions are always ridiculous. They are supremely
National Association of Piano Tuners. His so when a time of crisis is at hand.
The tuners today need to put their energies
letter calls for an answer.
Mr. Beach is rhetorical, not to say verbose. into building up their business, not to waste
His meaning is often obscure. But I suppose them in futile internecius warfare. When the
him to mean that I wrote as I did, not because house is on fire, does one call a meeting to
I held (and still hold) strong convictions, but consider changes in the hours of meals? One
because I was put up to writing by men who docs not—one gets water and calls for the fire-
once were, but are no longer, officials and mem- engines.
If Mr. Beach feels that all is serene, with a
bers of The Association. He indulges further-
more in some rather involved rhetoric discus- calm sea and a favoring wind, that then is how
sion of various acts alleged by him to have they feel. But I do not feel so at all. I feel
that the present issue is the issue of life and
been committed by these gentlemen.
My answer is short and simple—I have death; and that every other issue should be
neither seen, spoken to nor communicated with subordinated to this one of preserving the life
anyone of these gentlemen for nearly a year. of the whole piano tuning craft. Moreover,
No one of them could have had the slightest criticism should be considered on its merits.
idea that I was about to write the article which To attribute motives is always dangerous and
appeared in the January Review. As for Mr. often fatal. Calling names is easy, but it is
Beachjs rhetorical passage in the second para- not argument.
Mr. Beach presumes to speak in the name'of
graph of his letter, I can only say that, since
no official statement, so far as I know, has ever the Association. I take leave to doubt that he
been given out on the subject, I have only the has the right to do so, and I invite his fellow-
directors and fellow-members to continue the
foggiest idea of what he is talking about.
If Mr. Beach will explain what he means discussion upon a suitable level.
William Braid White.
and will furnish the details, I shall be happy to
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