Testing Statistics.. was Important Question

[John Ross]

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Hi Bill,
I don't doubt that with personal instruction, I could have learned to =
tune aurally. In fact, if I had utilized the SAT properly, I could have =
succeeded also.

The Chapter of the PTG I belonged to, never had a meeting, in all the =
years I was a member. Local tuners didn't want to help, and as a matter =
of fact, my tunings with the SAT, were better than some of theirs. =
(Customers opinion)
I just didn't have enough incentive to learn, properly, as I was making =
a good living.=20
 With an active chapter, it might have been different. It might also =
have made a difference, if a local tuner had been able to do a better =
job, than me, and take all my customers, by being better than me. Then I =
would have had to learn to be better than him. But that didn't happen. I =
couldn't, even, except for one time, get any of them to go to a =
convention with me. They thought that they wouldn't learn enough to =
warrant the expense.

I feel that this list and the availability of the conventions, has been =
what allowed me to stay ahead of the others. So big kudos for the PTG =
and the Pianotech list.

Bill, I think tragic, is too strong of a word.=20

My customers have not suffered because, I couldn't pass the aural part =
of the exam.

Regards
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
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  From: SidewaysWell1713@aol.com=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 6:08 PM
  Subject: Re: Testing Statistics.. was Important Question


  In a message dated 9/22/02 1:50:32 PM Central Daylight Time, =
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes:=20



    I am one who did it the wrong way. I started with the ETD too early, =

    and never was able to pass the aural part of the exam.=20
    I turn 65 this year, and have been tuning since 1975. I have made a=20
    good living at it, and had no complaints from my customers. I have =
an=20
    ongoing contract with a University. I know I will never have the=20
    incentive to try the aural exam again.=20



  While I recognize the level achieved with the ETD has been =
satisfactory, I feel this is tragic, to not be able nor even to desire =
to learn to tune aurally.  I know that if I could spend time with you, I =
could teach you to tune those 23 notes within a tolerance which would =
pass the Exam.  It is merely a matter of perception and control of =
beats.=20

  What is even more tragic, is that you would not want me to teach you.  =
Recently you mentioned trying an HT but didn't know one from the other.  =
While it has been well established that the use of correction figures =
will produce acceptable results, the non understanding of what is being =
done would never be acceptable to me.  There is too much possibility of =
error in programming for this kind of method to be reliable without the =
aural skills to know whether or not a big mistake has been made and how =
to correct it.=20

  Bill Bremmer RPT=20
  Madison, Wisconsin=20
  Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =3D-=20



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