Although the politically correct and gracious reply to your question would be to say "of course, not", I do make a distinction between professional piano technicians and duffers. Technically speaking, anyone who earns their living practicing the piano technical arts is a professional. I think professional piano technicians owe it to themselves and their clients to become members of a professional society, like the Piano Technicians Guild, to not only further their own education, but to add their contributions to the craft. I define a duffer as one who charges a fee to "tune" a piano, but may be clueless as to how to repair or adjust anything; someone who does not earn their living servicing pianos but "takes care of" a few pianos. I will also further my foot down my throat and say that I have never met a non-guild piano technician who did not become a better technician by joining the PTG. Carol Beigel, RPT Greenbelt, Maryland >From: PDtek@AOL.COM >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Subject: Re: Who needs piano technicians? Duffer? >Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:51:42 EST > >In a message dated 1/11/01 12:40:05 PM Central Standard Time, >carolrpt@hotmail.com writes: > ><< Supposedly there are about 4,000 piano tuners (in the PTG)and figure for > everyone of us there is at least one duffer >> > >This sounds like you are saying that if you aren't in the PTG, you must be >a >"duffer". Is that the way you see it? > >Dave Bunch _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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