[pianotech] RPT Credibility and "Status"

[Will Truitt]

Dear Duaine:

Since you so strongly advocate the position that a piano technician who tunes electronically exclusively should not be excluded from RPT status, and since achieving RPT status is a form of certification whereby the testee must meet certain criteria that are (as much as possible) objectively set; I would like to respectfully ask you what you feel the criteria should be in order for a testee to pass the test and achieve this certification as someone who tunes electronically.  

Will Truitt


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Duaine & Laura Hechler
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:12 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] RPT Credibility and "Status"

So, what you are saying that if I can't tune aurally then I should not
be tuning at all.

If that's the case, you are about to start a major war between each
tuner's opinion.

Again, you mention peers, sure most of my peers in this area have tuned
aurally - to pass the test - but they have all switched to tuning with
some form of ETD.

Again, you mention clients - I don't know where you are and who you tune
for BUT none of my clients have EVER asked if I could tune aurally.

This argument is getting so &*&^% old !!!!

Duaine

William Monroe wrote:
> No Duaine,
>
> People like you should be excluded from RPT precisely because (your
> description, mind you) you can't tune aurally and have no
> understanding of the basic tuning concepts e.g. intervals, beats,
> checks, etc.  RPT is a designation that is defined in part by
> affirming to ones peers, clients, etc that one can tune aurally - at
> least to some measured degree, even with an ETD.
<snip>
>
> Good luck in your growth.
>
> William R. Monroe