Why not to tune a piano?

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 David writes:
<< Why is everyone so afraid to get a license or pass a state mandated test 
to 
have a license to provide services?  I guess I cut a bit too far into the 
blue collar of this profession. >>

Greetings, 
     No, it is not too far a cut, it is too destructive a tangent.  The 
questions that need to be asked are: 
1.   who is going to determine what the testing actually is?  If it is state 
mandated, the standards will represent a political compromise.   
2.  Who is going to pay for the bureaucracy required to administer the tests? 
3.  Who is going hear the appeals?  

   Electricians are "licensed", but that doesn't mean your house was wired by 
someone that had even a remote chance of passing an electrical codes test.  
That is what happens when the governmental regulations take the place of 
market forces. A  piano technician should be allowed to succeed or fail on 
their own.  Same with an industry.   The higher the Guild membership, the 
fewer butchers there are out there keeping price and quality at the low end 
of the spectrum.  This can be a self-regulating business if we continue to 
educate.  
     I have been in the military,  the only way the government can regulate a 
given field is to use a lot of artillery. 

Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT