Wim, While it is true that Yamaha does not confer that title for attending classes in Buena Park, CA (like Little Red School House), after attending S&S NY classes, those technicians are allowed to advertise that they are Steinway Factory Trained. However, they are not allowed to advertise that they are "recommended" or "endorsed" by Steinway. But, (paraphrasing here) as Kent Webb put it while I was there, [well, you ARE factory trained, right? I mean, you're here, getting training and this is the factory. It's a simple statement of fact, not a title we confer]. In the case of Yamaha, however, the CA offices are not their "factory." so it is understandable that they don't allow "factory trained" as a designation until you get to Japan. FWIW William R. Monroe On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:10 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote: > Mark > > For what it's worth, there are no "Steinway factory trained technicians". > Steinway does not give any one that title, even those who have gone through > all their training programs. > > As one person said, I think the African Steinway representative is probably > trying to keep other technicians, other than their own, from working on > Steinway pianos. > > Willem Blees, RPT > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Davis Family (Mark, Janine, William, Stephen & Matthew) < > pianofortetechnology at saol.com> > To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 9:21 am > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Steinway technical and reference guide > > Thank you to all who have responded. I will see if I can get any joy out > of S&S NY. > Mark > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110201/3d9c56e1/attachment.htm>
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