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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matthew,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not too long ago, I received my diploma 7 years, 7
months after having sent the final tuning tape.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the plus side, I became an RPT 7 years, 2 months
before the diploma came.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As far as I'm concerned, the course was just an
expensive book that could have been a lot shorter. It has good information
though (plus some tools and other touchy feelys) and is probably the best way to
get started if you can't go to a residence school. Forget the
correspondence. It's just a nuisance unless you have a lot of patience and
are very young.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cliff Lesher</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WInfield, PA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=toddpianoworks@yahoo.com
href="mailto:toddpianoworks@yahoo.com">Matthew Todd</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:56
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Piano Training
Question</DIV>
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<DIV>Since we are on the subject of the Potter course, can someone please tell
me they have had better luck with him than I have.</DIV>
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<DIV>I really have an honest desire to learn this trade, and I need to at
least finish this course before I can think about getting apprenticed, but it
seems that response time has been an issue of the school. In fact, I
have been waiting for my video tape to be returned to me containing tuning
critiques and it has been three years. That is where I have left
off.</DIV>
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<DIV>I want to give this another chance, and I just want to start from the
beginning, and I have e-mailed Randy several times to ask about starting over,
but I have not gotten a response.</DIV>
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<DIV>What to do?</DIV>
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<DIV>Matthew<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>