Ed, Briefly, the German certification system involves several years of full time school and apprenticeship, followed by an exam regimen in which, among other things, the candidate actually builds a piano. Very much in the old world tradition of the guild. In Germany, this certification is required of any independent piano technician - it's illegal to hang out a shingle without one (there is an exception for someone who wants to hang out a mere "tuning" shingle). Bottom line, this is a very complex and cumbersome system, and one which will never happen in the US. That said, it is also quite admirable, and we in the US could learn a great deal from it. How to emulate? I'm not sure. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico --On Saturday, June 14, 2003 8:30 AM -0400 Ed Sutton <ed440@mindspring.com> wrote: > > Richard- > Could you say more about this, please? > Ed S. > > > But it seems to me that if one is first going to contrive some > certification above the basic skills required of an RPT, then it should > be more along the lines of what the German Piano Builder's certification > implies. > > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > UiB, Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html > >
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