Churches have survived for centuries in an "us against them" mode, in the past killing those who didn't fit in with the popular mode. There are fine technicians who would find this whole thing another opportunity to put "us against them". A small time college tech, when I get in over my head, my first call is to the tech for the Houston Symphony, paying him to aid me in anything I feel would be best for the college. I'd certainly consider this new notion a "good guy" against the presumably "not good enough" guy when there are, in any business those who do good work and those who don't. There is no certification which guarantees any kind of quality. Back before I took the RPT exams I was often called to task on pianotech because I said one could pass the exams knowing very little about real pianos, and 13 or so years after passing with rather good marks, I am all the more convinced such is the case. I am aware the Texas convention lost money last time. Everyone is struggling. So why not make "university" training available at conventions, rather than attempt a different, expensive, venture somewhere outside that venue? As for a piece of paper........... Oh my. I also have always been convinced the customer is far more capable of making value judgments regarding qualification than any piece of paper. I attended summer sessions 13 years of a 4-year certification in church music, and never managed to get certified.......... I think it had to do something with never bothering to fill out the paperwork. Was I better for the education? Absolutely. Would having the paper made any difference? Certainly not. les bartlett wbis290 wrote: > Hi Fed, > > This on the surface sounds good but there are a few things that need > to be addressed. First of all, those who are not full time technicians > at a university and have to do work in homes, schools and churches do > not have the luxury of being able to take all those days off just to > try to prove to someone that they are qualified. I am also reminded of > what I was told by some folks at Yamaha some years ago. When they > started their list of people who where qualified to service their > concert and artist pianos I was told that I was on their list even > though I did not take their three day training that these people were > supposed to take. I asked why and was told that some of the people at > Yamaha knew me and that I was qualified. then they took my name off. > Then I was put back on again. Later I was taken off again since I did > not take their three day course. I was later told by one of the Yamaha > people that they were having problems due to the fact that they had > people come who we re not qualified but they passed the three day > course and when they did not use what they learned in those three days > for a while, they did not do the job that they were supposed to do due > to lack of keeping up these skills. I think that this plan is going to > run into the same thing. The third thing that I am thinking is, are we > trying to make too big of a deal with this? How many universities are > going to look at this and care. Fourth, would it be worth my while to > loose $4,800 in work as well as the expense of the hotel room? I do > not think so. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090619/5212ed4c/attachment.htm>
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