[CAUT] CAUT Endorsement (was Re: Job Opening, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

[Michael Wathen]

I was tested at a Chapter meeting in 1976 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  I 
was asked to tune a new studio piano on a showroom floor.  The owner of the 
store got a free tuning.  When I was finished several RPTs gathered around 
the piano and checked out my temperament.  Another fellow asked me if I knew 
how to replace a broken upright hammer shank.  I said, "yes". He said "it 
looks you did a good job.  Congratulations on your new RPT status."

It certainly felt like a good old boys club.

Several years later I volunteered as one of the first people to take the new 
RPT tuning test. The measuring device was the Sanderson Tuner with the potts 
dials.  Sanderson was administering the test along with Claire Davies, and 
the Rep from Michigan, Hall.  I did well enough to qualify for examiner and 
proceeded to train. This took place at Translyvania University in Lexington, 
Ky.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco at luther.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAUT Endorsement (was Re: Job Opening, U. of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor)


> At 17:47 10/13/2007, you wrote:
>>>>>Does anyone else remember this testing for Craftsman?  I sure don't. 
>>>>>David Ilvedson, RPT
>>>>>Pacifica, CA 94044
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>>>I don't, but then again, I was "grandfathered" in from the RTT 
>>>classification which I got in '78.
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>>Nope, RTT came after Craftsman. It was Student, Apprentice, Craftsman, and 
>>Allied Tradesman in 1978. The present testing criteria is far more 
>>comprehensive and standardized, and far less arbitrarily scored than the 
>>Craftsman testing was back in '78. The classification structure, however, 
>>will never be permanently decided.
>>Ron N
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> Oh, yeah, I sit corrected. Must be that oldtimers disease.
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> I know I joined in '78, though.
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> Conrad Hoffsommer
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> Early to rise: early to bed;
> Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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