[pianotech] Ethics and efficacy of part-time tuning

[Kerry]

Hi Leslie,

Jim was my teacher too, in Springfield, Ohio back in the mid-70's, and a
finer individual and better instructor there never was (I guess that makes
us brothers in a way ;-)

 

I agree that attitude and drive are the key. Doing it part-time makes it
more difficult, but not impossible, to acquire and keep up skills. I've
frequently been amazed at who the people are who recognize poor workmanship
(and conversely some of those who should but don't). If you do good work and
are reasonably competent at the business end of things, you'll do ok. Those
who, whether part-time or full-time, seem to be getting by on shoddy work
and get paid anyway, well, like their cousins on Wall St., I think it'll
bite 'em on the butt sooner or later.

 

Kerry Kean

Kent Ohio

  _____  

From: Leslie Bartlett [mailto:l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:43 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ethics and efficacy of part-time tuning

 

I have always been a part-time tuner, and I have done more concert work than
I could ever imagined. It comes to me. I don't solicit such. I have simply
worked diligently and honestly. I did three concert venues in two days last
week. Jim Geiger, who taught me used to say, "There are tuners with 30
years' experience, and tuners with one year's experience, repeated 30
times." One's philosophy makes a huge difference.  After all, it's "only
another piano" if one has learned his skills.

lb

Gerald Groot wrote: 

All of us started out tuning part time but, some of us chose to go into it
full time.  As a supplimented income only, if that is the plan, then
personally, I don't believe continuing to tune only part time will provide
enough time to learn what needs to be accomplished to do quality work.  

 

 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090330/99bcffe3/attachment-0001.html>