---------- > From: Billbrpt <Billbrpt@aol.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Master Piano Tuner/Greg T. > Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 7:13 AM > > In a message dated 5/20/98 12:34:27 AM Central Daylight Time, PDtek@aol.com > writes: > > << 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. >> > > The above is an argument that has been run over an over again. It will serve > no purpose to even discuss it. Many of those who fit the above description > have already retired or passed away. My assumption is that the rest will also > in due time. So let's not dwell on it. > > Greg T., I had no idea that you were not a member of PTG or that you were not > an RPT. From the things that you write, I would expect that you could pass > the RPT exams more than adequately. The advice I would give to you is > basically that which I would offer to anyone: Join PTG, it will be the best > investment you could ever make. Go to every Regional Seminar you can manage > to attend, go to every Annual Convention you can mange to attend. > > Take the RPT Exams. There is a prescreening process that will help you not > waste your time and money, the Examiners' time and will save personal > humiliation if you are not yet ready to pass at RPT standards. Once you have > passed these Exams, you need to put back in what you taken out by volunteering > as an Examiner yourself. For the Technical Exam, you need only be an RPT to > qualify. To become a Certified Tuning Examiner is a much more legnthy process > and your tuning skills must be at the very highest level. However if you do > not qualify as a CTE Trainee, you can still and should volonteer as one of the > RPT's needed to serve on the set up nof a Master Tuning and on the scoring of > other examinees' Exams. When you serve in this way, you will benefit by > increasing your own knowledge and skill immensely. When you qualify as a CTE > Trainee, you should go through that process and serve at least one 5 year > term. This will increase your breadth of knowledge and skill by an > immesurable but greatly significant amount. > > I can only add that it would take a very long post to tell you what you don't > realize you have missed out on so far. It just may be that the reason that I > seem so very sure of myself when I talk about issues in tuning is that I have > a great deal of experience and understanding derived from many sources over a > substantial legnth of time. Virtually all of it has been through my > association with PTG. I have no comment on the "other organization" or its > members use of the title, "Master" other than what I have already said in a > previous post. > > Bill Bremmer RPT > Madison, Wisconsin
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