I need to say this just for the record

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 7/21/00 5:00:30 PM Central Daylight Time, 
DavidR2464@AOL.COM writes:

<< Being an RPT doesn't make one the best piano tuner.  The person who tunes 
the 
 pianos where I work and my home isn't a RPT.   He studied at Perkins and he 
 taught me how to tune and repair.  Stated in Larry Fines Book only about 50% 
 of the tuners are RPT.  Just like belong to MENC doesn't make one a great 
 music educator.  I respect the people who pass the RPT test and hope one day 
 myself to if I desire but some of the RPTs that I have had conversations 
with 
 online and on other newsgroups think that there poop doesn't stink.  >>


By the same token, I have met some non Guild tuner who have the same 
attitude. They think they are "too good" for the PTG, and think the 
organization promotes elitism. What they don't realize is that they don't 
know as much as they think they do, and would get much more out of the PTG 
that they ever would realize. 

There are people in every industry and occupation with this attitude, but 
that doesn't mean the organizations that represent them is bad. It just means 
there are some members of that organization that have a bad attitude. 

I'm glad you want to become an RPT one day. What's stopping you?

Willem