Zoe, I made a 3.5 years full time formal apprenticeship in Germany. I.e. twice a year attending vocational school for 6 weeks in each case, the rest of the time working and learning in a rebuilding workshop of a dealer. The apprenticeship ended up with an external exam of the Chamber of Crafts. The training included all aspects of rebuilding and wood working, as well as tuning and regulating. That was from 1988 to 1991. In 1992 I worked one year for another rebuilding workshop but then I decided to study psychology and earn my money as part time tuner. At that time many of my rebuilding skills became stunted because I only tuned and made some action jobs in field service. But on the other hand I have a PhD in psychology now. In 2007 I decided to leave psychology and to do only honest work anymore :-) So I set up my own piano store and sell used uprights and new Wendl & Lung pianos. Since I am a one man business the store is opened 3 days a week and I tune in field service the other 3 days of the week. Gregor ------------------------------------------ piano technician - tuner - dealer Münster, Germany www.weldert.de From: yiddishtangofever at shaw.ca To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:38:44 -0800 Subject: [pianotech] personal question- where did you learn PT? As a current student of Piano Technology, trying to carve out my path of learning on Vancouver Island BC…. I wonder where different people have gained their knowledge. If you would like to share your experience I would be thrilled… because there is so much knowledge and talent on this forum!! Thanks Zoe _________________________________________________________________ http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M1001xWin72 Mit Windows 7 wird online alles noch schneller und einfacher! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100115/2a22be48/attachment-0001.htm>
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