---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment 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. 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 knew 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. 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. 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. My take. Tony Caught wrote: > Hi Maria > > Am not leaving your story in, nor have I followed this thread but > fortunately or unfortunately which ever way you may see it I object to a > "professional person" tuner or not, saying "There is NO way to just read a > little here and there or some sort of book on how to tune cos it is simply > more complicated than that." That is pure bull,,,,. > > Then you rave on about "The intervals differ from octave to octave and you > also have to be aware how you check on your tuning after every interval." > Maybe your English is not the best but I do not understand how intervals > differ from octave to octave. > Think about it Tony... there is nothing nonsensable in her words here. > > Maybe I am just cheesed of at the attitude that you can't learn from a book. > Hells bells people learn how to be all sorts of things from books, or by > correspondence, or by trial and error. So don't say there is NO > way.......... That's Just pure CRA you know " the American Dice Game" > > Tony Caught ICPTG > Australia > caute@optusnet.com.au -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6a/ec/18/12/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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