On Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:16:43 PM David Ilvedson wrote: >There is always another way to do any test. What is the point? Will countless more hours improve anything? >I doubt it. Personally, I'll stick with Dr. Al and the CTE's and their countless hours if you don't mind. Out of curiosity, >how is the North Bennet Street School tuning test administered? How about the Meister Piano tuning test? I would >bet you get X amount of time to do your best aural tuning and then some/persons judge it somehow. Well, David, you are pretty close as far as North Bennet Street School goes. You tune a piano best you can, and then somebody goes over the tuning with you and points out the problems. They don't really "grade" it. If you make it to the end of the year there, that means you learned how to tune. If you are not making progress (which is assessed step by step as you learn - and not on some "test"), they ask you to leave... At least they did back when I was there... And the same people are still running the show... Oh and, by the way. They do encourage their graduates to take the PTG exams. And they administer them right there at the school - the faculty are all RPTs, two are CTEs and one is a TEC. I have heard David Betts muse at times about making the PTG exam a requirement for graduation... Hasn't done it yet... And, if you must know, the PTG tuning exam was developed by Dr. Al at the school, using their pianos. The first RPT tuning exams were given there. If it's good enough for the professional educators... israel Stein
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