<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>   Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>  So, my answer to those who offer any criticism or ridicule of the concept of Speed & Accuracy is to step aside.  If you are slow and like it that way, it's nothing to be ashamed of but it is certainly not a goal to promote as somehow being something better. I think it's high time that excellence and superiority be seen as worthy goals in our profession.  This idea that we should all be equal, that no one is any better at anything than anyone else is self defeating.  No one will achieve excellence and superiority by advertising it or bestowing oneself a title, only by making up one's mind to be the best that one can be by working at it consistently day after day, will it be done.</blockquote> I dont think anyone has criticised these goals... nor ridiculed them. There have been offered a few sobering posts which encourage tuners to also aspire to the goal of keeping speed in its proper perspective relative to quality... which relates to a persons experience and perhaps to some degree their basic physical limits.... I fail to see that pointing out these virtues in anyway detracts from others. I see no point in insisting that anyone who cant raise pitch "accurately" (whatever is meant by that in each individuals case) in 12 - 15 minutes is going to slow and thereby implying in no uncertain terms some inferior characteristic to their work. That is wayyyyy beyond the concept of embracing ideals of highest possible standards... thats turning the coin rather inside out and one must ask what then is actually being ridiculed and for what purpose ? Fact is that not everyone is capable of that kind of speed, sometimes not over the long term, sometimes not even sporadically. Many of these "snail paced" (I think somebody refered to them as) technicians do very fine work, have a very comfortable income and are valuable resources to their musical communities. So fine... speed is great no one has said anything else.... but not at the expense of doing quality work. One has to learn to walk before one learns to fly. <blockquote TYPE=CITE>My opinion, no humility implied nor offered.</blockquote> None taken or assumed :) <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Bill Bremmer RPT</blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>