Tuning Test

[Richard Brekne]

Todd... while I must remind one and all that this discussion belongs on the
other list, I wholeheartedly agree, and would probably go further then you on
this.

But as I said... this disscussion belongs on the PTG-L list

Todd L Mapes wrote:

> List,
>
> If I may, I'd like to insert some perspective from another industry into
> this conversation.  If you'd rather not hear about it, it's probably time
> to hit the delete key.
>
> I am a former CPA.  As you know, the Uniform CPA exam is one of the
> hardest, if not THE hardest, exam to pass as a professional competency
> exam.  The exam covers many topics from taxation, governmental
> accounting, industry accounting, business law, auditing, etc.  The
> examinees are not allowed to bring in reference manuals, notes, law
> books, FASB's (Financial Accounting Standards Board statements) or
> anything of the sort.  It must all be in your head.  You're only allowed
> to bring pencils, erasers, a snack and an I.D.  When I took the exam back
> in 1991, we weren't even allowed to bring calculators!  Now the exam site
> provides calculators, but not so back then.  My point is that in
> practice, naturally, I had access to hundreds of volumes of reference
> material as well as telephone support from the IRS, support from other
> colleagues, and now even online support.  No one would ever walk into a
> CPA's office and expect him to have memorized all the tax codes and
> accounting standards and auditing standards, but they would expect them
> to have a very good knowledge of how it all works.  I believe the same
> goes for the tuning exam.  To allow someone to walk in with an ETD and
> take the tuning exam from start to finish would be to allow people to
> become RPT's without having any basic knowledge of tuning theory.  I
> would think that most people could be trained to take an FAC reading and
> run a SAT, especially in this day of technological advances.  Hammer
> technique may take awhile to develop, but they could in theory tune a
> piano without any knowledge of beats or partials or aural checks, etc.
> To allow that would be to discount the credibility of the exam among the
> industry as well as among the general public.
>
> Todd L. Mapes
> PTG Associate Member
> Fort Smith, AR
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:13:35 -0700 Chris Gregg <cgregg@cadvision.com>
> writes:
> > Paul,
> >         I would have a tendency to go the other way and restrict the
> > exam to a
> > totally aural test.
> >
> > Chris Gregg.
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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no