I grew up in the piano business in San Diego, California. My Father was an instructor often at the PTG conventions, and often worked with local PTG members. As an adult, I worked full time as an RPT, tuning and rebuilding pianos for 8 years. I made the decision to get a business degree, and I went to work as an employee full time, and continued to work on pianos part time. I have dropped my membership with the PTG, only because I was working on pianos part time and did not feel my "piano tuning money" was best spent paying for PTG membership (I was young, building a family and such). I have spent my part time career being ethical and being as professional as I can. I do the best job I can, trying to make every tuning better than the last one. I do not rebuild pianos any more, but would do the same if I did. Having the benefit of being around my Dad with his work ethic and knowledge, I learned the right way, and I experienced some of the full time piano people, including some RPT, that were less ethical, professional and provided less value to their customers then I do now as a part time tuner. If I could have rejoined the PTG years later without all the testing and such, I would have, even being only part time for some of the reasons listed here, but it does not make me any less of a tuner. What I learned from my Dad, and others in the business I took with me into other careers. I am sure that the part time tuners are bringing their own ethics, values and work ethics to their current part time piano tuning career, and that can be good or bad. It is not the part time status of piano tuning, it is the tuner. Gene -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090331/4ac9d300/attachment.html>
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