American School of Piano Tuning

[John Ross]

Hi Wayne,
Get the Arthur Reblitz book from the library, it might help.
The unfortunate thing, is that it is hard to unlearn wrong methods that 
you have learned.
Join the PTG as soon as possible, and possibly some RPT will take you 
under his wing.
The help you get will depend on the amount of work available, in your 
area. Because it is kind of hard to train your future competition, if 
you are short of work yourself.
Just keep working, doing the best job you can.
Don't charge for the amount of time it takes you, if you are getting the 
job done by trial and error, the customer should not pay for your 
learning experiences. Charge for the amount of time it should have taken 
you, if you got it right the first time.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne M. Williams" <wwilliams11 at nycap.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re:American School of Piano Tuning


> Dear John:
> I took the course from the American School in the year 200, and found 
> that for repair work there is no easy way to explain it. It is indeed 
> inadequate in this regard, and I soon found myself up to my neck, so 
> to speak, in repairs I could not handle, I am in the middle of trying 
> to repair and 1912 Kranich and Bach upright, and the owner is 
> frustrated and growing more impatient by the day that I can't get it 
> to work "right". I probably should take the randy Potter course. Any 
> suggestions?
>
> Wayne Williams
> Schroon Lake.Y 12870