Keith, You're being way to literal, man! =D "Earn the right" means that I have proven to myself that I can "super tune" a piano. Once you reach that point, then the machine becomes a tool that you can choose to use to help create that ideal tuning that you are after. If you haven't gotten to that point, then you are stuck doing what the machine tells you to do, and your taste in tuning becomes subject to a preprogrammed template. I do enjoy your scrutiny of the language! Ry On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Mr. Mac's <tune-repair at allegiance.tv>wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Ryan Sowers wrote: > > > … I'm not "running from it". I have actually told my clients that some > day I may show up with one. But like yourself, I believe I will have "earned > the right" to use it. > > Ryan, > > What you say here has a nice ring to it, but it is a fallacy. > > In the Piano Technicians Guild the only thing that requires "earning the > right" to use > is the designation Registered Piano Technician. > The right to be an Associate Member is paying dues. > > The right to use an ETD is the simply the price of purchase. > Fork over the bucks, and you've earned the right to use it. > Heck, with TuneLab, you don't even have to do that to experience it. > > Sincerely, > > Keith McGavern, RPT > pianostuff.kamcam.com > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110128/fef2ae33/attachment.htm>
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