Duaine, maybe you should consider joining the Master Piano Technicians group. No exam requirements there. Or, pass the exam with an ETD. It's allowed. Relaxing exam standards is hardly any way to retain qualified people. If there were a doctor shortage, should we relax the educational requirements for an MD? I hardly think so. Rather, increase the incentive to become one. We've dumbed us down too much as it is. People who can't learn aural tuning should never be turning pins for money. People who won't learn bare minimum aural tuning should never become RPTs. If you can tune a C5 unison, you can learn to hear a F3-C4 fifth. Aw, but you know, fifths, fourths, thirds ... it doesn't matter. Tune your thirds into fourths for all I care. Just as long as it sounds good to you and your customers. Unisons? Well, more people might become piano techs if they didn't have to tune good unisons. So let's relax the standards there too. Why not accept 2.0 cent deviations just to get more members? Or 5.0 cent deviations. ETDs? sure! Let's take 'em all. Accutuners, Cybertuners, Verituners, Strobe tuners. Korg guitar tuners, and the list goes on. And when ETDs produce varying results, let's not even wonder why. It just doesn't matter what is used, just as long as one can satisfy his customer base. Don't make a lick of sense, do it? -- JF On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Duaine & Laura Hechler < dahechler at charter.net> wrote: > BUT, the RPT tuning test is - limited - to aural tuning. > > EXPAND the test to include ETD tunings. > > My wife made an interesting point - how many members - quit - because > they only want to use an ETD - and - CURRENTLY can't be accepted as an RPT. > > And, as my local chapter has reported, the RPT population of the > organization is dwindling. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081221/7be57e30/attachment.html>
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