Barrie, I too know a few blind fellows tuners that do amazing things (when they want to), like regluing hammers straight, or regulations, key leveling. But I have meet others that refuse to wcollaborate with us non blind, because they are afraid that we get their customers may be. So they then pretend assuming a full service to the schools and customers they work for, and that is not true of course. Indeed a blind person that was able to learn how to tune and how to take care of pianos, at large, and works as a self employed, may be a strong soul, and I understand they can be proud of that. But I've meet too many more than discutable new strings (with ugly coils, even a string on the wrong pin once), I finally get a little upset with the wonderful blind tuner that can do everything. Not to say they ar miles away better than some so called tuners I know around ! Beside, as I'll tend to get visual impaired with time, and my mother is, I understand fairly well the kind of problems they meet. Hard to do a nice travel job , or place the jack exacly under the roller edge, when you can't see indeed. But we can do so many things efficiently without our eyes, like tuning for instance, the view is a slow organ in fact, that is the main problem we meet with EDT's. BTW my first master in tuning was totally blind, and i've been working in stores and places where the floor and town tuners where mostly blind, but in these days the jobs where more clearly defined, belly man, finisher, reparations people, technicians intoner. Actually most of the last large workshop existing are driven by belly men, and they dont have good finishing people (regulation/intonation). Some individual technicians tend to share competences so each one can produce the part he master the most, that seem to me a good way to be efficient. A colleague of mine is a keyboard specialist, another does very good belly work, indeed avoiding to spend 100 hr + on a repair is interesting. Is this turning to be the same in England ? With all the best. Isaac OLEG Entretien et réparation de pianos. PianoTech 17 rue de Choisy 94400 VITRY sur SEINE FRANCE tel : 033 01 47 18 06 98 fax : 033 01 47 18 06 90 cell: 06 60 42 58 77 > -----Message d'origine----- > De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org > [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la > part de Barrie Heaton > Envoyé : samedi 18 octobre 2003 16:43 > À : pianotech@ptg.org > Objet : Re: Blind Technicians..was Lighting...was Nursing..... > > > In message <MABBLJGEBJDPJHIACJBAOEMJEMAA.oleg-i@noos.fr>, > Isaac sur Noos > <oleg-i@noos.fr> writes > >I'll not say my word on this, very instructive to see a > visual impaired tuner > >check problems in an action, for instance. > > > >But when it comes to repairs, that's a different story. > > > >This is pure lobbying, I don't concur. > > > >Best Regards > > > > > >Isaac OLEG > > That all depends on have many totally Blind tuners you > have come across > and what sort of traning they have had > > I would agree the more site you have the easier it is but there is > workarounds for all on site repairs and I do know one blind > guy who re > strings OK he is not as fast as me but his work is good > > Barrie, > > > -- > Barrie Heaton PGP key on request > http://www.a440.co.uk/ > AcryliKey Ivory Repair System UK © > http://www.acrylikey.co.uk/ > The U.K. Piano Page © > http://www.uk-piano.org/ > Home to the UK Piano Industry > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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