The Bad News

[Richard Wolff]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: The Bad News

As one of the "new folks", I've rapidly gone from the
"I've-got-this-figured-out-with-ETD/hammer" phase to
"dang-this-is-harder-than-it-looks" to
"I-hope-I-can-look-back-and-laugh-at-this-after-tuning-my-500th"! (Richard-
you'll have to translate "dang" into the appropriate Norwegian.)  It's up to
each of us to use our brains effectively, and no one else can make us do
this.  I've had some contact with my local PTG chaper members, and the
impression I get is that they are highly interested in helping me to become
a competent tuner/tech as quickly as possible.  What I don't know about
tuning would fill several books, but I have figured this much out: anyone
who trys to make a career of this without a thorough understanding of the
principles is going to be very frustrated, along with his clients.


>
> The danger lies more close to home... and its about
> "professionals" getting lazy... not you guys and gals out there
> what are in the first ranks,,, you all (myself included) are too
> interested in what we can learn with these things to get lazy...
> but the new folks coming up... When we get to the point where we
> accept that a tuner does not personally  have to know anything
> more then how to use a tuning hammer and an ETD.... we commit a
> kind of group suicide. If the day comes that the aural tuner
> disapears from this world... it will be our own doing me thinks.
>
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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