This is a special message and invitation for NON-RPTs; Your host and instructor for this free event will be Bill Bremmer, RPT. Interested parties should contact Bill at Billbrpt@aol.com. Information is as follows. Thanks. Terry Peterson Accurate Piano Service Lomita, CA Half Day Tuning Seminar A half day Tuning Seminar is being offered in the South Bay area of Los Angeles on Sunday, December 28, 2003 (location and starting time to be announced, alternative date will be Friday, December 26) for PTG Associates or Non-PTG Members who would like to gain the skills necessary to pass the Mandatory Aural Portion of the PTG RPT Tuning Exam. To pass the Exam, applicants are required to tune the area of the piano from C3 to B4 (C5 will be included to round out this exercise) entirely by ear. This will be a HANDS ON exercise, so bring your own tuning hammer plus a pencil with eraser and a small, pocket calculator. You will learn a newly developed sequence for tuning Equal Temperament (ET) which uses the exacting Equal Beating (EB) techniques which are used to tune Historical Temperaments (HT) and other alternative temperaments aurally with the same precision as can be expected from today's Electronic Tuning Devices (ETD). This sequence is due to be published in the PTG Journal soon (January or February, 2004) but advanced copies are available by request by e-mail: Billbrpt@aol.com. You will learn exactly how to tune each note in the C3-C5 range in a pattern which you will understand thoroughly and leave the seminar with the idea firmly in mind. You will also learn how the Exam is measured and scored and you will have a written record of the event. The participants themselves will do the tuning, not the instructor. For all those who previously thought they did not have this capability, this is the seminar for you, a life changing milestone in your career! Hopefully, this seminar will be repeated in the future at Chapter meetings, other Tuning Seminars, PTG Regional Seminars and the PTG Annual Convention. It will be an exercise which any RPT will be able to give to any group of tuning students. At this time, there is a location and a few interested people. We will however, be looking for more people and a larger space with a grand piano suitable for taking the Tuning Exam. A private home, church, school or piano shop or dealership will all suit the occasion. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">-=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> _________________________________________________________________ Tired of slow downloads and busy signals? Get a high-speed Internet connection! Comparison-shop your local high-speed providers here. https://broadband.msn.com
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