Sara, Welcome to the list, and welcome to piano technology second-career-land. You are wise to have reservations about correspondence courses as your only education source. As others have pointed out recently, guided practice is the only way to achieve proficiency. Consider the correspondence course in combination with apprenticeship. Study new knowledge and skills on your own, use your time with your mentor to practice what you have already studied. Randy Potter has an excellent course. http://www.pianotuning.com/ Contact Randy for a booklet explaining in 20 pages what I just wrote 2 sentnces about: How to use his course as an apprentice. Good luck. could be worse: My sister-in-law just gave up horse breeding-training-racing and went back to work as an accountant. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: deanslist To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: 5/1/2006 2:00:33 PM Subject: Yet another newbie Hi all. As an introduction, I am changing direction career-wise. My former career of horse breeding does not exactly mesh well with being a mother. The hours were outrageous and unpredictable. I am a serious piano student with an eye toward getting a second degree a few years down the road, this time in music. So I've naturally become interested in how the piano works and what is required to maintain it. Now I am ready to pursue learning to tune, regulate, repair, etc. Having a useful and marketable skill would be a good thing. So far, I have looked at the correspondence courses, but have not committed. I have serious reservations. Ideally, I would prefer to find someone willing to take on a part time apprentice in the fall. (My kid will be in all day Kindergarten.) The packet from the PTG arrived the other day, and I see that I will need a sponsor to join. Any tips on finding one? I've been emailing back and forth with Ruth Webb of Allied Piano (it's not far from me.) Also, I will be calling the local PTG chapter president (Southeastern PA) this week to try and get some direction. My practice piano - a vintage 1920 Somethingorother upright will be arriving on May 16th. Brand is unknown because the second previous owner antiqued the thing, ruining a beautiful case, I am told. Sorry this is so long. I would appreciate any advice you can provide that wasn't already in today's other Newbie thread. One other question: How do you search the archives? I did read the FAQ, but did not see a search function anywhere on the archive pages. Thank you! Sara Nash -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060501/0d84f69c/attachment.html
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