<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV>Thanks for your input Cliff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The "If you want to know the truth" saying from the Chinese fortune cookie should have been prominently displayed on the top of your post. Many on the list seem to have opinions but not too many are interested in the truth on this topic. "Its too expensive to send back a VCR tape" come on. "He's too busy traveling to conventions". He's not too busy to go to the bank and cash your check.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Your post was right to the point. The good the bad and the ugly. the first honest post I've read on this topic thus far. Your the only one to date to tell Matthew the way it is to date.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Goin' fishin' for a week in the Sierras, so be nice.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Steve</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pura Vida</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=lesher@dejazzd.com href="mailto:lesher@dejazzd.com">The Leshers</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> 8/4/2007 9:38:33 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Piano Training Question</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matthew,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the plus side, I became an RPT 7 years, 2 months before the diploma came.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cliff Lesher</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WInfield, PA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV 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> <DIV><BR></DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What to do?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Matthew<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>