learner with some questions

[Barbara Richmond]

A thousand?  Aw......maybe that's when some are comfortable <doing> the job.

I don't think that there is a number.  Some people pick it up quickly and
others never do.  Did somebody  mention being able to do a decent job in 2
hours?   There's nothing like being "out there" to learn how to work
quickly.

Back in the dark ages when I went to piano tuning/tech school, there was a
fellow who was ready to tune <publicly> in three months (and we all learned
to tune aurally--no machines).  It took me a little less than a year.  My
first tuning job?  A bird cage (for crying out loud)......and from there I
went to a nickelodeon that I had to label each of the tubes to make sure I
got them back in the right place.  Man, was I relieved when I finally got to
tune a "regular' piano.  :-)

Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:20 PM
Subject: RE: learner with some questions


> <<Also, is there some kind of consensus as to how many pianos a person has
> to tune before they are ready for the real world? >>
>
>
> About 1,000 on average.
>
> Terry Peterson
>