---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You certainly do not have to be a player to be a most excellent tuner. You also don't have to be player to restring pianos, or replace a pinblock. However, to be the best voicer, regulator, and all-around piano-fiddler, that you can be you should experience the piano as a player. Is it absolutely necessary? Of course not. But if you do not play, I feel you are missing out on a powerful diagnostic tool (and a helluva good time too!) Alan Forsyth <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: Cy Shuster wrote; "Not every jet engine mechanic can fly, nor can every pilot maintain a jet engine. Most likely neither own their own jet, yet they are around them every day, and typically see many different types of jets. " You raise some moot points here. I always considered that a piano tuner who does not play the piano would not be much good as a tuner. There are plenty of tooners I know of who do not actually play. But then that very same jet engine mechanic that you mention, not only doesn't have a plane, but most likely can't fly one either. Does a surgeon or undertaker have a few bodies at home to practise on? Just a thought. AF Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Pianova Piano Service Olympia, WA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/43/36/9e/a4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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