In a message dated 98-05-20 01:38:13 EDT, you write: Dave: What was voted down was to have all those who are RPT (RTT) take the new tuning and technical exams. The reason for that was a time element. With about 2500 RTT at that time, and with each exam taking 4 hours, and needing 3 other technicains, it was deemed an almost impossible task. However, the reason we created the new technical and tunign exams is because the PTG recongnized the old exams were bad. Since the passage of the new exams, all members who want to become an RPT have to pass the new exams. It will take some time, about 50 years), but eventlally all RPT will have taken the new exams. Willem Blees << Now it seems to me that anyone who is able to pass an exam in this way without ever laying hands on a piano has no right to pass themselves off as qualified to competently work on pianos, and a customer has no way of knowing who has passed the more stringent tests. Now, I admit that I have not kept track of guild polocies since then. Have all RPTs taken and passed the most recent test procedures? If not, doesn't this state of affairs greatly dilute the RPT status? If I remember correctly, when the "new testing" proposal was voted down, the reason given was that if these "old testing" techs had been in business all this time, then we could safely assume that their skills were up to speed. In other words, the same philosophy that is used by the Master Piano Technicians of America. Dave Bunch >>
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