>...I repeat... the ability to turn and set a tuning pin alone... even to a >visual referance... is only one small part of the greater set of skills >required of a piano tuner. This is not a matter of opinion. This is >simple fact. And by virtue of that fact... if all you can do is turn the >pin... then you are not a piano tuner.... >Richard Brekne... Repeating what you believe doesn't make it so, Richard. It is an opinion on your part, and not a fact, to declare it so. Having others agree with your viewpoint does not substantiate it anymore so. *However*, if you substituted the word, tuner, with the word, technician, your positionally stand would have reasonable merit. Otherwise, you have presented no evidence to support that one's abilitity to put a piano in tune with a machine (SAT / RCT), and set the tuning pins while doing so, constitute that person from not being a piano tuner by definition. It would be clearly evident that anyone capable of accomplishing the task of putting a piano in tune and making it stable, has a clear enough understanding of what it takes to tune a piano, regardless of the method of madness employed. Keith McGavern Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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