The Final Result

[Richard Brekne]

kam544@flash.net wrote:

>
> 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.

Grin... As I said this is not a matter of opinion. And as such what I or anyone
else thinks is of no consequence.

> *However*, if you substituted the word, tuner, with the word, technician,
> your positionally stand would have reasonable merit.

This statement dies upon its own unreasonableness. "Piano technician" has an
even greater scope.

> 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.

No I have not presented any evidence to support the standing definition of a
piano tuner. If you wish to challange this point... then lets start a new post
regarding the true and proper definition of a piano tuner.  Further if you
insist on useing this kind of argument... then you must also turn it on
yourself.. Are you prepared to offer evidence in favour of a definition for
"piano tuner" that limits itself to simply being able to turn and set the pins
to a machines specifications ???

> 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.

This, my dear colleague, is pure balderdash and is I might add at the heart of
the issue. The fact that one can turn on a machine, and make the dials stop...
even go so far as to be proficient at setting pins in no way whatsoever is a
guarantee that the individual understands jack didly about what a piano tuning
is. Any future testing proceedure simply has to establish that a prospective
tuner does indeed understand and has a working knowledge tuning. Otherwise we
reduce ourselves to executors of someone elses program... via the machine we
choose to run it in.  Now you may include that last statement as a viable
definition for what a piano tuner is, or you may not.. as you will... But
regardless of your or my opinion on the matter... the fact remains as I have
stated it.

This may sound arrogant to some I suppose... but it really quite simple. The
skill of setting pins in no way encompases more then a small part of the scope
of what a piano tuner has to be able to do and know.

>
> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no