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Cant let this one go without putting my two cents in. I have to side with
Maria on this one. And I am a largely a self taught tech. You can only
get so good on your own, and it is a rare individual indeed that gets to
be really really good. This really applies to just about any form
of work or knowledge area.
<p>Now I got pretty darn good on my own.... good enough to satisfy some
of the best pianists around, but when it came to the real test.... satisfying
a panel of tuners who <b><i>knew </i></b>what they were listening for,
I wasnt good enough. I had to go back to the school bench, a bench I woulda
been better off sitting at in the first place before I started really getting
the hang of things.
<p>Correspondance courses, vidoes, and the like at their best are "second
bests..." necessary because the nature of our buisness and life in general
has forced us to resort to these methods. But nothing can compare
to sitting down one to one with a master who is good at communicating and
teaching. In Finland, as in the rest of Scandinavia, this option is not
nearly so remote as it may be in some parts of the world.
<p>I personally get a bit upset at the kind of oversimplyfication... even
devaluation I hear from so many, even other techs, about what we do and
how much we should learn. Ours is a profession, like any other, and
we should demand of ourselfs the same degree of and certainy of "knowhow"
that is required of other professional trades. There are schools nearby
for this fellow and it would be big shame if he didnt take advantage of
them because somebody told him he could learn this "stuff" out of a book.
<p>My take.
<p>Tony Caught wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi Maria
<p>Am not leaving your story in, nor have I followed this thread but
<br>fortunately or unfortunately which ever way you may see it I object
to a
<br>"professional person" tuner or not, saying "There is NO way to just
read a
<br>little here and there or some sort of book on how to tune cos
it is simply
<br>more complicated than that." That is pure bull,,,,.
<p>Then you rave on about "The intervals differ from octave to octave
and you
<br>also have to be aware how you check on your tuning after every
interval."
<br>Maybe your English is not the best but I do not understand how intervals
<br>differ from octave to octave.
<br> </blockquote>
Think about it Tony... there is nothing nonsensable in her words here.
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<br>Maybe I am just cheesed of at the attitude that you can't learn from
a book.
<br>Hells bells people learn how to be all sorts of things from books,
or by
<br>correspondence, or by trial and error. So don't say there is NO
<br>way.......... That's Just pure CRA you know " the American Dice
Game"
<p>Tony Caught ICPTG
<br>Australia
<br>caute@optusnet.com.au</blockquote>
<p>--
<br>Richard Brekne
<br>RPT, N.P.T.F.
<br>Bergen, Norway
<br><A HREF="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no</A>
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