It's great that this kind of discussion is happening. Clearly there are questions we need to ask ourselves, and each other. I suspect that if we really took the energy to look closely there may be less disagreement than it seems, but that is what it is. I like the fact that we can have subtle, but very different styles in the way we approach our tuning. Even though I defend what I do, it is not my goal to have everyone else do the exactly the same thing. We all come into this profession from some very different perspectives. There is no agreed "best" way, but I think this accounts for some of our different expectations. Some of us come from strong shop backgrounds, and others come from strong musical backgrounds. I'm not one of them, but there are a few lucky ones with a strong early background in both. As for being a "master tuner".... whatever that means, those were words simply taken from Webster's. "... to become skilled or proficient, and to gain through understanding of... every aspect of <~ed the craft>". Maybe this is something that needs to be defined appropriate to our situation.... but that is another discussion. If our craft is so large that this is impossible for any serious, skilled technician- then definitely we aren't compensated enough! good day to all, Dennis Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090202/a0bc19ec/attachment.html>
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