[CAUT] Jeanie's brain storm - was Boston changed to dealers...

[PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com]

I've been watching this whole discussion with great interest from a school  
point of view. As part of our curriculum, we offer "new piano preparation" 
as a  serious topic. It is not brand specific, but reaches out to the most  
common variations that exist, and which are not significant enough to  
dilute the general principles and activities of new piano prep. This is an  easy 
syllabus. It is not something that can be taught to a rank beginner, a  
student in the first, or even second quarter of the curriculum. There is  
necessary grounding for the principles to be understood, and the sequences of  
activities to make sense. The opposite posture, and what we have responded to,  
is reflective of the dealers' wont to hire the newest and cheapest 
technical  help to "prep" pianos from the crate to the floor, and to follow through 
in  aftercare. 
 
Paul 
 
 
In a message dated 11/23/2009 5:12:02 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
rnossaman at cox.net writes:

Jeannie  Grassi wrote:
> Mark,
> Please understand....my suggestions have  nothing to do with PTG.  
Rather, it
> addresses manufacturers  dealing more directly and effectively with their
> pianos at the  dealerships and encouraging dealers to use technicians who
> have gone  out of their way to get additional training.  

Personally, I think  it's many years overdue to ditch the 
presumption that acceptable technical  skills are piano brand 
specific. Shouldn't any competent tech be able to  prep a new 
*anything* without a specific manufacturer's certification?  
I'm told that over half the PTG membership has never attended, 
that's  *never*, a national convention. I don't understand how 
manufacturers  pressuring their dealers will get the cheapest 
tuners the dealer can find  into any sort of training program 
when they won't attend the training  already offered them.

Just my perspective.
Ron  N


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