Message for Marshall

[ed440@mindspring.com]

Marshall-

In England there is a magazine published for sight impaired technicians.  You may need to contact an English technician to find it.  It should have articles to help you.

Perhaps a floor tuning job would be a good opportunity for you to refine your skills.

Have you looked into the Chicago School of Piano Technology?

Ed 

-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotune05 <pianotune05@comcast.net>
>Sent: Jan 5, 2006 9:19 AM
>To: ed440@mindspring.com, Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: Message for Marshall
>
>Hi Ed,
>Thanks for the e-mail.  Fortunately, I understand how pianos can go ut of 
>pitch and muting, I'm just not quick at it.  I'm sure there are techniques 
>that the Emil Fries school could teach me in terms of finding pins etc.  I"m 
>going out of town next week to get more hands on with an RPT who has been 
>assisting me through e-mail.  I've learned tunig through another excellant 
>RPT in Chicago and the Rand y Potter course I hae here as a reference.  I'm 
>practicing quite a bit on hammer technique, but I just need to increase my 
>speed and develope a quicker method for finding pins, or the right pins and 
>muting.  Right nw, I count the pins and use both hadns as a guide, and both 
>to help find the right strings to mute.  So there's lost time there.  Once 
>I'm on the right pin and in the right set, I'm usually fine, but if I 
>accidently move the lever, then I have to count all over again and get 
>repositioned.
>
>I have nothing agaist Emil Fries school. I think their great!  I'm just in a 
>position where I cannot relocate, place bound as some call it.  If I we 
>didn't have my wife's cleaning service which is our source of income a new 
>baby, and financial diffiiculties, I might consider just packing up and 
>heading west, or North West.  It might take a little longer, but I'm sure 
>I'll discover a pattern that workds for finding the pins etc, works in 
>speeding up the tuning process.  Fortunately, I do quite a bit of reading, 
>gleaning from this awesome list we're on, and the constant tuning practice.
>
>As for pitch falling, loose tuning pins, cracked bass bridges, cracks in the 
>plate or sound board all can contribute.  Of course that piano being close 
>to the front door of the store isn't that great for the piano either.
>
>Well have a great day.  Write again.  Talk t oyou soon.
>Marshall
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <ed440@mindspring.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:53 AM
>Subject: Message for Marshall
>
>
>> Dear Marshall-
>>
>> The impressions I get from your messages are that you can't identify the 
>> causes of severe instability in a piano, or don't understand how to raise 
>> pitch, and that you don't understand basic techniques for muting and 
>> finding tuning pins.
>>
>> If you really want a career as a piano technician, I believe the most cost 
>> effective path to a good income will be for you to attend the Emil Fries 
>> school, which specializes in training people with sight problems.  It will 
>> be worth making a great effort to attend this school.  Then you will be 
>> able to begin your career knowing you know what you need to know to call 
>> yourself a piano technician, and you will not worry what customers think 
>> of you. You will not have to "fake it" because you will know how to do it. 
>> Five years from now you will be earning more, working on good pianos, and 
>> building a reputation that brings you good customers by referral.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Ed Sutton
>>
>>
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