Referring back to a post on this thread from earlier today, I was also told when I got my Private Pilot rating that now I could start learning to fly. Same has been stated and re-stated repeatedly about the RPT exams... that it's a STARTING point, not an end unto itself. Geez, give it a rest already. No one has Ever stated that passing the RPT exams makes you qualified to tune for Elton John or Skip James. It should also be pointed out that there's a local guy who's tuned for NUMEROUS big (and picky) names who is not an RPT... he's just very very good at what he does. <br><br>Paul Bruesch<br>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">PAULREVENKOJONES</b> <<a href="mailto:paulrevenkojones@aol.com">paulrevenkojones@aol.com</a>> wrote: </span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="font-size: x-small; color: black; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent;"> <div>Bob:</div> <div> </div> <div>How long an exam do you want? Shall we also then test for mitigating false beats, oh and while we're there, re-pin that section of the bridge, and, by golly, twist a few bass strings? The exam is designed to "weed in" as well as "weed out". Almost simply by taking it, one is proving why one has become a member of the PTG in the first place: to be an exemplar at large and to one's colleagues by demonstrating advanced knowledge and "advancing" knowledge. </div> <div> </div> <div>Paul</div> <div> </div> <div> <div><strong>"If you want to know the truth, stop having opinions" (Chinese fortune cookie)</strong></div></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>In a message dated 08/11/07 06:11:43 Central Daylight Time, ITUNEPIANO writes:</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"> <div> <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div> <div>In a message dated 8/11/2007 2:31:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">pianotuna@accesscomm.ca</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><strong>and a very *oddly* out of tune piano (I do<br>appreciate why it is sharp/flat/sharp/flat, but it is still not usual to <br>find a piano "out of tune" that way in the "real world").<br></strong></font></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div>This is a major failing of the tuning exam.  The exam should represent real world tuning, not an attempt to make a piano stable by prepping it in an un-natural way.  The exam should test for pitch raising and tuning, just as we do every day in the field.  </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" lang="0" size="2">Bob Maret, RPT<br>Piano Technician<br></font></div></font><br><br><br> <div><font style="font-family: ARIAL,SAN-SERIF; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: black;"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px;"> Get a sneak peek of the all-new <a title="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" href="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" alt="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> AOL.com</a>.</font></div></div></blockquote> <div> </div></div> </blockquote></div><br>