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[J Patrick Draine]

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 04:03  PM, Ron Koval wrote:

> So, who is paying for that training

Well, the folks who go to the North Bennett Street School (for example) 
do indeed pay *real money* to learn aural tuning (and assorted other 
piano technology skills), and to have their attempts critiqued on a 
daily basis for an academic year. When their efforts are deemed 
sufficiently acceptable some of them manage to get paid small sums for 
"practicing" in piano practice rooms at Berklee, BU, and other 
appropriate situations (floor stock?). The dedicated students will 
probably log a thousand tunings before the end of their academic year 
and their final exams.

Really! Goin' to school! Some folks still do it (and I don't think 
they're dinosaurs).

Patrick Draine
graduate of the defunct & less reknowned Robert Perkins School of Piano 
Technology ('78)
& other places of learning for degrees in even more obscure fields of 
endeavor