[pianotech] RPT exam?

[Ryan Sowers]

In a nutshell:

You have 5 minutes to set the pitch of the center string of A4 to 440 hz. If you finish early that time is added on to the next part which is the midrange. Here you get 40 minutes (plus time left over from setting pitch, if there is any) to tune notes C3 through the top B4. The piano is muted off so you only have to deal with one string per note. After that section is scored you will have 1 hour to tune the rest of the piano except for the bottom 3 notes and the top C note. Again this is single strings only. Then the stability is tested on notes C3-B4 by delivering 3 solid test blows to each note. If a note changes by 1 cent or more after the test blows you lose points. Last is unisons. You will have 1/2 hour to tune the unisons for the midrange (again C3-B4). Each string of a unison must be within 1 cent of each other to not lose any points. 

Examinees can use an ETD for part 2 but not part 1, or for unisons. 

--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Gregor _ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Gregor _ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
Subject: [pianotech] RPT exam?
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:08 AM




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List,

the last days there were some threads about the RPT tuning exam and the use of an ETD in that exam. Could anybody please tell me what exactly has to be done in the exam? As far I understood the postings you don´t have to do a complete tuning, is this correct? What area of the piano has to be tuned in what time? And what has to be done else? I looked at ptg.org but I couldn´t find information about the exact requirements. I read only that there is a written and a practical exam, aside of the tuning exam.

Regards

Gregor

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