<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Re: PPT?</title> </head> <body> <div align="left">PPT might mean P***-Poor Tuner.<br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Willem Blees" <wimblees@aol.com> </wimblees@aol.com><br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Received: 3/5/2008 9:42:28 PM<br/>Subject: Re: PPT?<br/><br/> <div align="left"> <wbr> </wbr> Greg<br/><br/>I would suspect this guy is trying to get away with slight of hand promoting. But it's been done before, even when it comes to piano makers. If you look in the Atlas, you'll see lots of Stein###### pianos, some legitimate, others kind of dubious.  <br/><br/> </div> <div style="clear: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<br/>Piano Tuner/Technician<br/>Honolulu, HI<br/>Author of <br/>The Business of Piano Tuning<br/>available from Potter Press<br/>www.pianotuning.com</div><br/><br/>-----Original Message-----<br/>From: Greg Hollister <ghollpiano@yahoo.com><br/>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br/>Sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 4:36 pm<br/>Subject: PPT?<br/><br/> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_68d19bb0-0e6e-4926-afe5-111cc11d9e72"> <div>I was tuning a piano today when I spied another tuner's card in the piano. He's not a guild member and I was curious as to whether he might have represented himself as one. Sure enough when I looked at the card, after his name were the  letters PPT. (He didn't say anything about the guild)</div> <div>Is this is a legitimate title in some other organization or some slick PT-BS?</div> <div>Greg Hollister, <strong>RPT</strong></div> <div> <hr size="1"/>Never miss a thing. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs" target="_blank">Make Yahoo your homepage.</a> </div> <div class="aol_ad_footer" id="u8CA4D533B749C3B-27C-345B"><font style="font: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; color: black"> <hr style="margin-top: 10px"/>Supercharge your AIM. Get the <a title="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" href="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" target="_blank">AIM toolbar</a> for your browser.</font> </div> </div> </div> <wbr> </wbr> </div> </body> </html>