American School of Piano Tuning

[Wayne M. Williams]

Dear John:
I am starting to attend meetings of the PTG out of the Capital district of 
Albany. I am going to a meeting in Lake George to hear the Hilberts, 
rebuilders from Vermont do a presentation. Today I contacted Dick Dante from 
Long Island and I will be meeting him on August first.

I have the Reblitz book, so I need to read it more often..

Thanks for the info. By the way, I lived in Sydney from 1977 to 1991, where 
I taught instrumental and eneral music for the Cape Breton Distrct School 
Board. By the way, do you know a piano tech named "Red" Mike MacDonald from 
Sydney? He tuned our piano in sydnet and is a good friend who got me 
interested in piano tech away back in the 80's.

Take care.

Wayne Williams
Schroon Lake, NY 12870
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: American School of Piano Tuning


> 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