Piano tuning training

[Robert Wilson]

--- Tom Driscoll <tomtuner@mediaone.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lev Mallinger" <lev@www.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 3:19 PM
> Subject: Piano tuning training
> 
> 
> > I am interested in exploring a career
> > as a piano technician. I live in Los Angeles
> > and have the following questions:
> >
> > 1. how can I determine if I have the
> > aptitude and talent for this?
> >
> Lev,
>     The most important  criteria is to be able to
> listen to the following
> comments from customers for the duration of your
> working life:
> 
>         1. When I was a kid we had a piano tuner who
> was blind !
>         2. You can tune a piano but you can't tuna
> fish !
>         3. When I was a kid we had an old piano and
> my Father and brothers
> smashed it up and
>             took it to the dump !
>         4.This was my Grandmothers Betsy Ross
> spinet---she was a concert
> pianist !
>         5.Do you do this full time?
>       

I get this too!
Why do they ask if we do this full time? Do they think
that no-one would possibly want to earn their living
this way? or do they think we do other jobs as well
and just fill in with piano tuning in our spare time!!

Bob Wilson
London.



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