Greetings Robert, Do you still want to resume tuning? If so, how can you be sure the physical problems won't return? As a pianist, I am sure that playing trumps working on pianos. Yes? I had a scare a while back with an arm problem. I am still not "out of the woods" altogether with it. I am a player too. While I agree that a pianist should know more about the instrument's technicals take care of your playing apparatus! To answer your question about where to learn more, there are excelllent books available. I am not sure if you have to be a PTG member to purchase them from the PTG, but the guild carries them. This forum is a good place to learn alot and you can also search the PTG archives. University of Western Ontario has a pretty good certificate program on piano technology too. It's one school year: Sept until April. _www.uwo.ca_ (http://www.uwo.ca) click on industry, then click on Don Wright Faculty of music, click on Piano Technology. Best Wishes, Julia Gottshall Reading, PA In a message dated 2/14/2010 12:53:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, rsfinley at charter.net writes: Here is my background. Soem time ago I started a correspondence course in piano technology and I am an Associate member of the Boston Chapter of the PTG. Shortly after I started the course, training as an apprentice, and a few tuning customers, I developed very painful tendonitis in my left arm and back pain. Piano tuning seemed to make the pain worse. I put the piano technology work on hold for a while and concentrated on teaching piano students and giving recitals (I am a concert pianist and I have played in the USA and overseas). Playing the piano didn't seem to bother me as much. I have now recovered from that and now want to get involved again in learning more about piano technology with some practical experience. I think everyone has to learn and start somewhere, and maybe ask questions that some might consider trivial. It's a huge field and there is a tremendous amount to learn, and it takes time. As far as pianists understanding about how a piano works and about the technology, I couldn't agree more. I think an overview about this would be useful in a piano degree course if it isn't already. There are some famous concert pianists who are very knowledgeable about piano technology. Krystian Zimermann comes to mind. I believe he built his own piano? I think Alfred Brendel also knows a lot about piano tuning and technology as well. Thank you all very much for your suggestions and advice so far. All the best. Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100214/58fd0fe7/attachment.htm>
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