The Final Result

[Kevin E. Ramsey RPT]

I agree; that must be why there's the aural exam part of the R.P.T. test.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: The Final Result


> Must dissagree emphatically.  The ability to turn and set a tuning pin is
only a
> small part of what a piano technician needs to know. Any person who can
not tune
> a piano useing aural skills alone is not a piano tuner in my book.
Essential to
> being a piano tuner is understanding and being able to execute a tuning by
use of
> tool # 1... the brain. This brain is interfaced to the instrument by the
ears,
> and the arms and hands do the adjusting that this brain decides upon.
>
> If the brains behind a tuning lie within the machine, then the arms and
hands are
> simply an extension of that machine, just as they are an extension of the
human
> brain in the case of a real tuner.
>
> Now you can yell and scream and call me all kinds of unsavory names... you
can
> copy these statements down and throw them at me in a few months taken
totally out
> of context... you can actually do whatever you like...grin... but you
cannot
> change the truth. And the truth is that if you can not tune without a
machine...
> then you can not tune period.
>
> The ability to turn a wrench does not a tuner make..
>
> I susceed the soap box to my esteemed colleague from Alabama..
>
> LHSBAND440@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> > If it by ear or by ETD it all comes down to the final result.  This is
true
> > for the customer as well as the tuner.  In the industry if you are a
terrible
> > tuner you will not retain you customers and your tunings will not hold.
I
> > guess if I really wanted to stir up trouble I would suggest that the
tuning
> > exam be administered by the judges who did not know if the person was
using
> > and ETD or their ears or both and let the final result stand as a
passing or
> > failing tuning.
> >
> > Standing with fire hose in hand
> >
> > Leo Silverman
>
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
>
>