The first piano I ever tuned was in a store my dad used to own, but the new owner allowed me to tune one of the pianos. (it took me 8 hours). I was only 32 years old at the time. Several customer came in and basically made the comment, "You can't be a piano tuner unless you're 65 years old, and/or blind". Wim -----Original Message----- From: Mr. Mac's <tune-repair at allegiance.tv> To: piano <piano at a440.co.uk>; pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 2:29 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Respect n Jan 29, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Barrie Heaton wrote: > … In the UK ETD are still looked on with the same scepticism as full sighted uners were in the 1930 most folk thought back in the 1930 and still today in ost parts of the UK if your not Blind you could not tune a pianos proper. … Wow, Barrie, that's some comparison. Personally, I hope the full sighted example back then is more myth than fact, and I certainly hope that isn't the case as you say in these modern times for he UK. I guess I'll never know the truth of such things without doing extensive esearch, which I'm fairly certain is not going to happen by me. Keith McGavern, RPT ianostuff.kamcam.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110130/1a0351bf/attachment.htm>
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