I spoke to the changes in designations on the council floor in Las Vegas 1986. What I ended up as in Vegas was an RVP... It didn't happen again this year, though. :-) Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 1:21:42 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Gettin' olde?...was Field hammer shank repair or??? Nope, the official names, labels, designations, ranks, and statii were allied tradesman, student, apprentice, and craftsman. RTT came in with the elimination of the allied tradesman and student categories, and the categories became rtt and associate (I think). Rtt definitely came after, and replaced craftsman. When the change was in the final argument phase, as opposed to the perpetual argument phase, I sent one of the participants the suggestion that we change the name of the organization to something other than PTG, adopt a new logo for the new parent organization, which any member could use, and retain the old logo and PTG name for exclusive use of the currently "craftsman", proposed RTT members. Wim ought to remember that one, since he presented and argued it. Of course, he's old too, so... Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100912/2e5b7727/attachment.htm>
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