This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mickey Kessler=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:47 AM Subject: Re: aural/electronic tuning and PTG rules At 09:46 PM 4/16/02 -0400, you wrote: By the way, what's the best way to find out exactly what the RPT = tests involve and how they are scored? I tried to find out one day, and I browsed through every bit of litterature I had. Either I missed it, = or I didn't have the right litterature. Charles: In the PTG publication "The Tuning Examination -- A Source Book" = (available through PTG; I got mine at the San Diego convention) there is = an extensive discussion of the tests. =20 In my opinion, the book is invaluable. In addition to descriptions of = the tests and scoring procedures, the book is packed with useful and = practical information and ideas. Mark (Mickey) Kessler=20 I've been helping give the written and technical exams for years = now. The written is 100 questions on general piano construction and = basic service procedures. The technical exam has 3 parts: vertical = regulation, grand regulation, and repair. For vertical reg., you have = an hour to assemble and regulate a 3-note action model, determining key = height from the fallboard and key slip, and blow from other regulation = parameters. For grand reg., you have an hour to assemble and regulate a = 1-note action model, including bending damper wires and re-regulating = the damper system. Again, only key height is given. For repairs, you = have to string an empty unison, make a hitch pin loop for a single = string, and splice a broken string in 20 minutes. That's where most = examinees fall down or run out of time. And you have to replace a = broken upright hammer shank in 20 min. Then there's filing a couple = hammers, rebushing a key, rebushing and repinning a grand shank . . = that's about it. =20 You have to pass each of the 3 parts with at least 80%. Two RPTs = are required to give the exam and to confer on scoring. If you fail one = part, you can retest within a year. But if more than a year goes by, = you have to take the whole test over again. =20 Have never given the tuning test -- there are plenty of articles = and literature about it. And there are source books from the home = office for the technical test as well. As for the written, ask an RPT = to go through the Pre-Screening manual with you. Shouldn't take more = than a half-hour or so over a cup of coffee. --David Nereson, = RPT, Denver ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bf/05/3e/1a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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