registered piano technician

[Israel Stein]

At 06:04 AM 12/3/2006, Jim Bryant  wrote:
>Duaine;
>Maybe I am missing something from your post. Are you advocating the 
>addition of categories such as RPPPT and RROT ? :-)
>When an organization or an individual attempts to be all things to 
>all people it inevitably becomes less of each. PTG does a good job 
>with the RPT thingee and does it better than any other organiozation 
>for piano techs that I am aware of.
>I believe that there are forums for pneumatics and reed organs and 
>perhaps they offer some type of testing/recognition...I don't know 
>for sure because I don't work on these thingees.
>My thoughts on a cool , cloudy, misty sunday morning in Florida.
>Jim Bryant (FL)


Jim, Duane

At various time and in various discussions - on the PTG-L list, by 
the way, which is where this sort of thing belongs - the idea of 
creating franchised categories for piano sub-specialties had been 
received quite sympathetically. It most often comes up in connection 
with piano rebuilders. The only hangup is that to date nobody has 
made a serious attempt at devising an objective exam to test for 
skills in such areas - or even made a list of skills to be tested 
for. Somehow when people bring up the idea, they expect "the PTG" 
(whoever that might be) to devise an exam for them. The problem is 
that only the practitioners of such a sub-specialty within the piano 
craft are capable of devising such an exam - and yes, it would be a 
huge undertaking. But then, so was the development and refinement of 
the current PTG tuning and technical exams. I have often suggested 
that if subspecialties were interested in developing a franchised 
status within the framework of the PTG they would begin by forming a 
caucus within the PTG - similar to the CAUT caucus - and work on 
developing an alternate path to franchised membership through testing 
for their particular skills. As they say, there is no free lunch...

Israel Stein


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