American School of Piano Tuning

[Wayne Walker]

Hi Wayne,
"Red" Mike MacDonald does warranty tunings for the pianos sold from our
Sydney store. I was in Sydney last week tuning our floor stock. From
talking to our guys at the store, Mike is the only tuner for the island
of CB. We bought the McKnight's Music about 4 or 5 years ago. Last year
we moved the store across the street in the old Crowell building which
we gutted and remodelled.
What seems to be the problem with the Kranich upright? Surely someone on
the list can offer some ideas on how to fix it.

Wayne Walker
Piano Tuner / Technician
Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service
264 Herring Cove Road
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3P 1M1
902-221-1540
902-496-6924 Fax
www.musicstop.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne M. Williams [mailto:wwilliams11 at nycap.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:22 PM
To: Pianotech List
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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