Tuner Recommendation

[Farrell]

Oh, there's a little evidence to work with. The lady had to go back to her 
old tuner to explore finding a WT tech. You're right, even if the guy didn't 
know too much about WT theory he could always dial it up on his ETD. Perhaps 
he works without an ETD. Then I should think that he would at least have a 
cursory knowledge of WT and be able to help the lady find a local tech who 
might be able to do the WT work. If s/he can't do that, then is seems s/he 
should be able to help the piano owner with the local process of finding 
that service.

I guess really, the assumption that I was making was at one level - either 
the tech doesn't know what a WT is, or is unwilling to help the pianist find 
a WT-capable tech - so yeah, it appears the tech is either ignorant or a 
poor business person - and on another level, and this is where my criticism 
really lies, is that if the tech can't help the pianist by either doing the 
work or finding someone who can, it would appear the tech is lacking in 
professional development.

I have noticed that in this profession that many techs seem to live in their 
own little bubble and once having attained some level of skills/knowledge 
they vegetate at the level for the duration. Anyone in this business that 
has pursued continuing education should be aware of WTs. A standard practice 
among professionals in any business is providing clients referrals when a 
project goes in a direction you are not qualified in or for whatever reason 
don't provide the service needed.

I just think that any good tech should at least be able to recognize a 
project is not his/her cup of tea, and be able to help the client meet her 
needs with a local referral.

And yeah, that probably means joining the PTG and reading the Journal. You 
don't have to like whatever politics may float around the organization - any 
organization has its quirks - you don't even have to like the people in the 
organization - people are people (that can be good or bad). I am simply not 
aware of how anyone can be a well-informed up-to-date piano tech if they do 
not utilize PTG - there is no other source of information like the PTG. The 
PTG isn't the one manna here to save the earth, but rather the one 
organization in this business that is dedicated to providing a clearing 
house of information for piano techs to dive into.

And if one-track is a member of PTG - it would seem s/he doesn't have 
his/her eyes open.

Just my rant.... er, opinion!

Terry Farrell

>> I'd love to see that puzzled look on Ms/r. One-Track's face when s/he is 
>> asked to tune something other than ET!
>>
>> Terry Farrell
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>>> She had it tuned once in the interim but did not enjoy playing as much
>>> because the one-track tuner only tunes ET. She has been spoiled by
>>> Broadwood Best.
>>>
>>> She asked for a referral of someone to tune a WT.  Is there anyone
>>> in the area who's not afraid of the big bad wolf?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jon Page
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> That shouldn't be a problem for him. He can just dial it up on his ETD and 
> go for it as usual. Surely can't be an aural tuner, can he? None of them 
> around anymore. How many strictly aural tuners are there out there who 
> intentionally tune other than ET? I suppose if he wants to keep that one 
> customer, he should purchase a dedicated ETD or laptop and software. Does 
> anyone know it he uses an ETD? If he does, send him a tuning file.
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> Being myself a one track aural tuner, I know if someone asked me to tune 
> other than ET, I'd have to resort to Tunelab and try and work it out from 
> scratch.
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> The point here is the assumption that the tuner in question is in question 
> at all. He's judged to be either afraid, ignorant of any possible 
> alternative, or otherwise non-functional as a technician because he only 
> tunes ET. Seems to me that's making a pretty detailed case from very 
> little evidence.
>
> Ron N
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