Teaching son

[Kristinn Leifsson]

--But I know 21 year old men. They think they know everything, and
are impatient doing anything but what is fun.
Wim--




Whadda hell?  Hey we DO darnit!
I mean, we shall inherit the Earth, and Mars for that matter along with 
lunar resources, not to mention the abundance of the asteroid belt.
We HAVE to know everything!



No seriously,
Larry, not that I´m an RPT or anything.
RPT´s should try to be one or two levels above the rest.  That´s the way 
they want to look at themselves, after all.

I can´t imagine that those people that made the status in one year were 
THAT capable.  A lot of the things we learn is from mistakes, and people 
that have been working for ONE year haven´t had time to make that many, 
unless they really don´t know what they´re doing.

I tuned my first whole piano after 2 1/2 months, in 3 1/2 hours, with good 
results.  When I came home I tuned for a heavy duty concert two months 
later.  The tuning was fantastic, I even heard it on the radio two years 
later and was really happy.  I´ve tuned for CD´s, and umpteen concerts and 
have had good remarks from the musicians.
However, the expert regulating is something I´m one cent full of a semi 
tone short of.
Contest this if you will, everybody, but to get really proficient in that, 
one needs a great deal of experience.

The way Richard Brekne has done this impressed me.  He has great experience 
in piano work, and flew through the test.
That´s the way it should be done, I think.  This would eliminate the need 
for MPT´s, which I think should be an unnecessary group.

I´m not saying that your son can´t make the test in one year.
But it would be tragic if he made a lot of rookie errors after making this 
supposedly prestigious grade.



Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland (21, likes skydiving)