THE best RPT in America (rant)

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Either one could be a bad thing especially if the heresy was hear say. lol
Marshall
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  Heresy or hear-say....lol

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    From: "pianolover 88" <pianolover88 at hotmail.com> 

    > First of all, to be fair, that is heresy, and "quoted" from your memory. We 
    > have no way of knowing if he said any of that in jest, or if you misquoted 
    > or even misunderstood what he was conveying. 
    > 
    > Having said that, Being and RPT may have its merits and benifits, but in no 
    > way does it guarantee a better income or anything else other than the 
    > satisfaction that you passed the test and can put the logo on your business 
    > cards. 
    > 
    > Terry Peterson 
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > ----Original Message Follows---- 
    > From: Tom Sivak 
    > Reply-To: Pianotech List 
    > To: pianotech 
    > Subject: THE best RPT in America (rant)! 
    &g t; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:33:38 -0700 (PDT) 
    > 
    > List 
    > 
    > What do you think about an RPT whom I met recently? Below are some of 
    > his comments that I found...interesting. 
    > 
    > 1. Only one or two clients per month can "appreciate" the really fine 
    > tuning he is capable of, so he feels that "as long as the unisons and 
    > octaves are close" that's good enough for the rest of them. 
    > 
    > 2. Informed me that he never bothered to learn how to splice a string. 
    > His scores on the other areas of the RPT Technical Exam were high enough 
    > that he passed without even attempting it. 
    > 
    > 3. Told me that his hearing is "too good". "I actually hear 
    > coincidental partials! When I use a M3/M10 test on an octave, I actually 
    > hear the coincidental partials beating!" (WOW! Imagine that! Now there's 
    > a set of ears!) 
    > 
    > 4. Told me he covets the job of tunin! g for h is local symphony orchestra, 
    > and regarding the guy who has the gig, "I can't figure out how he got the 
    > position. I've heard his work. I do a much better job." 
    > 
    > 5. Hired to tune pianos in a warehouse (with me and 4 other tuners), he 
    > tuned two pianos in 7 hours. (I tuned 6.) He then asked me, "How do you do 
    > it so fast?" So the next day, I chose to tune a piano behind him so I could 
    > watch him in action to see if I could give him some tips on tuning faster. 
    > I watched him as he used both hands to place the tuning lever on each pin, 
    > left hand on the tip, right hand on the handle. Then...he'd detune the 
    > string by at least a half step to a minor third, before pulling it back up 
    > to pitch. He did this on pitch raises as well as the final pass. I 
    > commented, "You could improve your speed if you used just one hand to move 
    > the tuning lever from one pin to the next." He repli! ed, "I don't want to 
    > scratch the plate. That's why I use both hands." (Am I super-coordinated or 
    > something, that I am able to move the tuning lever from one pin to the next 
    > without scratching the plate? Or is this just another Associate-related bad 
    > habit? I 
    > couldn't even think of a way to comment on his detuning of each string 
    > without insulting him.) 
    > 
    > 6. Claimed that Virgil Smith told him that he tuned as well as Virgil 
    > himself and that he could teach him nothing. (Except perhaps the one thing 
    > Virgil should have taught him: to do the best he can on every piano, whether 
    > he thinks the client can "appreciate" it, or not.) 
    > 
    > 7. Wore a tie (with the RPT logo on the tie tac) every day to the 
    > warehouse while the rest of us wore Tshirts and shorts. (OK, at this point, 
    > every little thing about this guy bugged me...my apologies to all you 
    > logo-bearing-t! ie-tac- wearing RPTs out there.) 
    > 
    > 8. Claimed he won an award from his chapter for passing his RPT exam 
    > quicker than anyone EVER had in the past. (Less than 4 years...and...NO 
    > STRINGS WERE SPLICED during the production of this RPT!) 
    > 
    > What a piece of work this guy was! 
    > 
    > Sorry for that. I do feel better, though, sharing that with someone. 
    > Anyone. 
    > 
    > This is not a rant against RPTs in general. I may be one myself, one 
    > day. Call me old-fashioned, but I plan to splice a string at my Tech Exam, 
    > plan to continue to do the best tuning I can on every spinet I come across, 
    > will continue to not cast aspersions on the work of others in my field, and 
    > will never drop Virgil's name in an effort to validate myself. 
    > 
    > Tom Sivak 
    > Associate Member Chicago Chapter 
    > 
    > 
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