Here, we have DYIER'S (Do it yourselfers) and many others that go into it with little or no intention of bettering themselves. It is to them, that I was referring. Nice explanation Kerry. I like the philosophy you wrote Leslie. There is a lot of truth in that statement. From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Kerry Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 8:25 PM To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ethics and efficacy of part-time tuning Hi Leslie, Jim was my teacher too, in Springfield, Ohio back in the mid-70's, and a finer individual and better instructor there never was (I guess that makes us brothers in a way ;-) I agree that attitude and drive are the key. Doing it part-time makes it more difficult, but not impossible, to acquire and keep up skills. I've frequently been amazed at who the people are who recognize poor workmanship (and conversely some of those who should but don't). If you do good work and are reasonably competent at the business end of things, you'll do ok. Those who, whether part-time or full-time, seem to be getting by on shoddy work and get paid anyway, well, like their cousins on Wall St., I think it'll bite 'em on the butt sooner or later. Kerry Kean Kent Ohio _____ From: Leslie Bartlett [mailto:l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:43 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ethics and efficacy of part-time tuning I have always been a part-time tuner, and I have done more concert work than I could ever imagined. It comes to me. I don't solicit such. I have simply worked diligently and honestly. I did three concert venues in two days last week. Jim Geiger, who taught me used to say, "There are tuners with 30 years' experience, and tuners with one year's experience, repeated 30 times." One's philosophy makes a huge difference. After all, it's "only another piano" if one has learned his skills. lb Gerald Groot wrote: All of us started out tuning part time but, some of us chose to go into it full time. As a supplimented income only, if that is the plan, then personally, I don't believe continuing to tune only part time will provide enough time to learn what needs to be accomplished to do quality work. _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090330-0, 03/30/2009 Tested on: 3/30/2009 8:41:25 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090330/36071893/attachment.html>
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