In a message dated 11/23/2009 8:40:41 P.M. Central Standard Time, zeno.wood at gmail.com writes: Hi all, I appreciate what you're saying about urging dealerships to only hire highly skilled technicians, but I have a different take on it. For many technicians straight out of the few schools out there, working for a dealership is a good way to get started in this business. It's a perfect way, and with proper training in new piano preparation, many of them are running into dealers who don't want them to do the work the way it needs to be done. So they move on, and the less experienced and cheaper technicians move back in. So it goes, pace Kurt Vonnegut. Sometimes these folks are actually members of the PTG and sometimes they actually are RPTs (for instance the recent cohort from North Bennett Street) And from CSPT, Zeno! , but they're still new and have much to learn. They can learn a lot prepping pianos for a dealership, learn things that it would take a lot longer to learn on their own. They also have a lot to offer, because after one or two years in school they are, after all, pretty solid. Significantly more solid than the untaught or largely self-taught, learn-on-the-backs-of-your-clients technicians like I was 30 years ago. But certainly cheaper! I don't think it makes sense to create barriers for solid techs who don't have much experience. Regards, Zeno Wood On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Jeannie Grassi <_jcgrassi at earthlink.net_ (mailto:jcgrassi at earthlink.net) > wrote: Hi Rex, I do believe such information has been given. Certainly Yamaha’s 37 Steps is one example. I believe Kawai has a checklist also. That doesn’t seem to be the problem. And there are plenty of technicians who know what to do. What I was referring to are dealers, and indirectly manufacturers, who take the cheap way out by hiring unskilled and new technicians to do such work, who have had little or no training simply because they are willing to do it. If the manufacturers aren’t stepping up and saying they expect the pianos to be prepped in a certain way, the dealers aren’t going to spend the money to pay a qualified technician to do it. I realize that most of what I have been saying is wishful dreaming, but wouldn’t it be great if we were actually respected and appreciated for the work we do and if we were actually allowed to do it? jeannie ____________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091123/c5e570f4/attachment.htm>
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