Fascinating information, Barrie. Thank you. Keith On Jan 30, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Barrie Heaton wrote: > In message <C0460FCB-F045-45D3-BDC6-27FFDBD9F476 at allegiance.tv>, Mr. Mac's <tune-repair at allegiance.tv> writes >> >> On 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 tuners were in the 1930 most folk thought back in the 1930 and >>> still today in most 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 the UK. > > After the WW1 there was a lot of Blind folk around and on one the main jobs to retrain for then was piano tuning, so in the UK there was a lot of blind tuners then, you had 6 collages turning out VI tuners and one tuning out fully sited ones, in the 80s there was only one for Blind tuners and 4 for sited tuner. Today we have one place left to train full sited and none to train Blind tuners. As to numbers there are about 120 registered blind tuners in the UK today, to quantify that you only have 640 piano tuners advertising in Yellow page for the whole of the UK including the Blind ones > > Were they better then! well yes, only because of the very strict training they had to do and the myth that blind folk have better hearing helped
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