American School of Piano Tuning

[John Ross]

I have heard of Mike MacDonald, but never met him.
Good luck in your new occupation, it is/was a second career, for quite a 
few of us.
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: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: American School of Piano Tuning


> 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
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