More Realistic Test was RE: tuning exam in U.S.

[Ed Sutton]

    Perhaps it would be easier to start with some advanced writen exams, for
example covering the _Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the Piano_.
    Ed S.


    ----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>; "College and University Technicians"
<caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: More Realistic Test was RE: tuning exam in U.S.


> I think.... that the existing RPT tuning exam is far to cumbersom to
> administer and set up for the level of skill it wants to confirm. The
> technical and written exams are ok... but this need to set up a piano in
> advance with three RPTs (one of them a CTE), with all the hours of
> pretuning and detuning... frankly... its ridiculous.... especially so
> given the degree of expertise it requires to pass and the fact that the
> test does not really require you to tune the piano per se.  The whole
> thing shouldnt be much more complicated then the very first part of the
> exam that deals with setting pitch.
>
> That being said... this discussion more or less arose from the
> discussion on caut about the new guidelines... and one of the spinoffs
> there was the idea of a special CAUT classification of tuner and how to
> go about setting qualifications standards.
>
> I would like to echo a suggestion from our freind Woger (newly weleased)
> from up the yonder in Nannook Land...
>
> A new and very highly qualified technician classification could be
> contrived by first defining what skills and levels need to be obtained,
> and then by offering classes in conjuction with regional conventions, or
> other appropriate locations and times.
>
> An example could be a course on bridge recapping, where succesfull
> completion of the class would include the student actually producing a
> recapped bridge fully drilled and pinned in a real or mock up piano
> situation.
>
> Each succesfully completed class would bear its own tag so that RPT's
> could add to their list of qualifications any areas of specialties they
> have demonstrated special expertise in.
>
> Some combination of all classes could result in a new designation(s) for
> the technician that reflects their area of specialization.
>
> RicB
>
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> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
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