[pianotech] RPT Credibility and "Status"

[Ed Sutton]

Duaine Hechler:

On your web site http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com/aboutme.html you have 
the Piano Technicians Guild logo, with no indication of your membership 
status. You are not a member of PTG, by your own testimony.

This is dishonest and illegal, and shows you don't respect the rules of the 
organization.

PTG members are incredibly generous in sharing knowledge, experience and 
skills, and in helping Associates who want to learn to become good 
technicians. Playing by the rules is how you earn our trust and respect. You 
are not playing by the rules.

Ed Sutton


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duaine & Laura Hechler" <dahechler at charter.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] RPT Credibility and "Status"


> So, what you are saying that if I can't tune aurally then I should not
> be tuning at all.
>
> If that's the case, you are about to start a major war between each
> tuner's opinion.
>
> Again, you mention peers, sure most of my peers in this area have tuned
> aurally - to pass the test - but they have all switched to tuning with
> some form of ETD.
>
> Again, you mention clients - I don't know where you are and who you tune
> for BUT none of my clients have EVER asked if I could tune aurally.
>
> This argument is getting so &*&^% old !!!!
>
> Duaine
>
> William Monroe wrote:
>> No Duaine,
>>
>> People like you should be excluded from RPT precisely because (your
>> description, mind you) you can't tune aurally and have no
>> understanding of the basic tuning concepts e.g. intervals, beats,
>> checks, etc.  RPT is a designation that is defined in part by
>> affirming to ones peers, clients, etc that one can tune aurally - at
>> least to some measured degree, even with an ETD.
> <snip>
>>
>> Good luck in your growth.
>>
>> William R. Monroe
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