<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>"Different Strokes" by Ken Burton is a good discussion of hammer technique.  Available from Potter Press</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>" Piano Technician's Guide to Field Repairs" by Stephen Brady covers the essentials for things that may need to be fixed on a given piano before you can start to tune, or, heaven forbid, if something breaks while you are tuning.  Available from the PTG</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Journal reprints from the PTG, either hard copy or CD.</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=kkociolek@pghmail.com href="mailto:kkociolek@pghmail.com">Ken Kociolek</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 10/2/2004 8:01:40 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Beginning Tuner</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=534393912-13062004>Hello everyone.  I am new to this list and would like to ask some help.  I just finished a beginning tuning course. We used Reblitz's book.  I would like to ask what other books would the list recommend for a beginning student.  Looking through the Schaff catalog, there are quite a few books on tuning. Recommendations would be appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <P> </P> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 10%"><FONT color=#800000 size=2>Outgoing mail is Virus Scanned by Norman Data Defense.        </FONT></P> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 10%"><FONT color=#008000 size=2>Inbound Spam reduced 98.2% by Vircom Sieve.        </FONT></P></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>