Advice on Apprenticing in SW Florida

[David Smith]

Thank you all for your advice on my question.  I have heard from a very good 
tuner/technician in my area and will work with him if he is willing.  Thanks 
again for your advice and counsel.

Dave


>From: "David Smith" <dsmith941@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Advice on Apprenticing in SW Florida
>Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:32:04 -0500
>
>Would anyone be able to give me advice on how to apprentice myself with a 
>highly reputable and competent piano technician in SW Florida?  I am 
>hesitant to just cold-call technicians in the area because I don't know 
>them.
>
>I have wanted to do this for many years, and have recently retired and am 
>living for the next 4 or so years near Ft Myers, FL.  I am about 1/3-1/2 
>way through the Randy Potter course, am learning aural tuning, have a SAT 
>III and am tuning my own pianos with it, while practising repair and 
>regulation on an old upright.  I have tuned 25 pianos in the last 6 months, 
>(actually 3 pianos several times -- detuning them before the next tuning 
>session).  I am finding that the SAT III device is a great help in learning 
>aural tuning, as it gives me a consistent benchmark to shoot for and check 
>against.  Also took some tuning tutoring and went to lots of technical 
>session in Chicago, which was great inspiration for me at this point.
>
>Would really like to learn from a good technician/ teacher first hand and 
>in return would do work for them at very reasonable rates.
>
>Is the apprentice approach still a viable and useful approach both for the 
>apprentice and the master in these modern days.  It seems to be that it 
>would be, but I am hesitant to take the next step.
>
>Thanks in advance for any feedback and advice, except for that on my 
>spelling and grammar (g).
>
>Dave Smith
>Pine Island Florida
>PTG Associate Member
>
>
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