[CAUT] Jeanie's brain storm - was Boston changed to dealers

[Andrew Anderson]

As someone who has dealt with government licensing, I would caution  
against seeing it as a panacea.  There is a tendency in "non-critical"  
areas especially, for licensing to devolve into simple revenue units.   
Even in critical areas that can be a serious problem.

Andrew Anderson

On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Dennis Johnson wrote:

> I was not aware PTG ever lobbied to prevent government licensing of  
> our trade.  Is this true?  One can imagine how at first impression  
> gov regulations would not be attractive, but with hind sight....  I  
> agree.  I wonder if this something that could ever be revisited,  
> with careful new perspective of course.
>
> best,
>
> Dennis Johnson
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> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Diane Hofstetter <dianepianotuner at msn.com 
> > wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> What does your wife do?  I became a hearing instrument specialist to  
> learn more about hearing and how piano technicians and musicians can  
> protect their good hearing and get help when they have problems.
>
>  In order to keep my license, I have to have continuing education  
> units also.  As soon as I saw that, it occurred to me that maybe it  
> wasn't so wonderful that PTG worked so hard to keep the government  
> from licensing us.  The hearing industry _uses_ the government  
> regulatory boards to require their practitioners to keep their  
> education up to date. The government boards are only too happy to  
> allow the professional organizations to specify what the continuing  
> education units consist of.
>
> Manufacturers have trainers that travel around the country giving  
> seminars on their products.  There are regional conventions, which  
> give classes you can earn CEU's in and national ones that you can  
> earn even more CEU's in.  There is a national hearing research  
> center near me and I attend monthly seminars there.  You can even  
> earn cEU's taking online classes.  The online ones are wonderful  
> because they cover a broader spectrum of subjects than they are able  
> to do at the conventions.
>
> Diane Hofstetter
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> Jeanie,
> Your "brainstorm" is a little like my wife's profession.  In order  
> for Stella to keep her license valid every year she has to pick up a  
> specific number of continuing education credits, which she earns by  
> attending classes at any one of a number of professional  
> conventions, classes, seminars, etc.
> I'm not seriously suggesting we can apply this to PGT at this time,  
> but in a world where pianos are more important than they  
> are.....what a great way to increase skills, event attendance, and  
> importance to the "RPT" title.
> Mark Wisner
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>
> Diane Hofstetter
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