Who needs piano technicians? Duffer?

[Carol Beigel]

Although the politically correct and gracious reply to your question would 
be to say "of course, not", I do make a distinction between professional 
piano technicians and duffers.  Technically speaking, anyone who earns their 
living practicing the piano technical arts is a professional.  I think 
professional piano technicians owe it to themselves and their clients to 
become members of a professional society, like the Piano Technicians Guild, 
to not only further their own education, but to add their contributions to 
the craft.

I define a duffer as one who charges a fee to "tune" a piano, but may be 
clueless as to how to repair or adjust anything; someone who does not earn 
their living servicing pianos but "takes care of" a few pianos.

I will also further my foot down my throat and say that I have never met a 
non-guild piano technician who did not become a better technician by joining 
the PTG.

Carol Beigel, RPT
Greenbelt, Maryland

>From: PDtek@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Who needs piano technicians? Duffer?
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:51:42 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/11/01 12:40:05 PM Central Standard Time,
>carolrpt@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< Supposedly there are about 4,000 piano tuners (in the PTG)and figure for
>  everyone of us there is at least one duffer >>
>
>This sounds like you are saying that if you aren't in the PTG, you must be 
>a
>"duffer". Is that the way you see it?
>
>Dave Bunch

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