ETD's, calculators and the exam

[Kevin E. Ramsey RPT]

In the case of completely eliminating the aural part of the test; Yes, I am
against that. In fact, if they wanted to make the tuning test aural only, I
would say OK.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: ETD's, calculators and the exam


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>
> "Kevin E. Ramsey RPT" wrote:
>
> > Richard,, The way the current test is set up here, is that you must be
able
> > to tune, ( granted, it's only three octaves.) aurally the center section
of
> > the piano. I think it's from B2 to C5. Then you're graded using fairly
tight
> > standards as to A440, stability, etc. For all practical purposes, if you
> > aren't a pretty good aural tuner,,you aren't going to pass. Doesn't
involve
> > using the machine at all.
> > ----- Original Message -----
>
> I know.. I just took it this summer. Actually felt it could have been a
good
> deal tougher, but at least it confirmed you had the basic idea of and
skills
> needed to do an aural tuning. The present discussion is about a proposal
to
> allow the use of the machine to do the whole test. This of course would
reduce
> the value of the present test quite a bit.
>
>
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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