In a message dated 7/21/00 5:00:30 PM Central Daylight Time, DavidR2464@AOL.COM writes: << Being an RPT doesn't make one the best piano tuner. The person who tunes the pianos where I work and my home isn't a RPT. He studied at Perkins and he taught me how to tune and repair. Stated in Larry Fines Book only about 50% of the tuners are RPT. Just like belong to MENC doesn't make one a great music educator. I respect the people who pass the RPT test and hope one day myself to if I desire but some of the RPTs that I have had conversations with online and on other newsgroups think that there poop doesn't stink. >> By the same token, I have met some non Guild tuner who have the same attitude. They think they are "too good" for the PTG, and think the organization promotes elitism. What they don't realize is that they don't know as much as they think they do, and would get much more out of the PTG that they ever would realize. There are people in every industry and occupation with this attitude, but that doesn't mean the organizations that represent them is bad. It just means there are some members of that organization that have a bad attitude. I'm glad you want to become an RPT one day. What's stopping you? Willem
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