SUNY Finger Lakes Community College is offering a new program in piano technology. Contact <cglattly at rochester.rr.com> for information. ES -----Original Message----- >From: "Wayne M. Williams" <wwilliams11 at nycap.rr.com> >Sent: Jul 25, 2006 11:22 AM >To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> >Subject: Re: American School of Piano Tuning > >Dear John: >I am starting to attend meetings of the PTG out of the Capital district of >Albany. I am going to a meeting in Lake George to hear the Hilberts, >rebuilders from Vermont do a presentation. Today I contacted Dick Dante from >Long Island and I will be meeting him on August first. > >I have the Reblitz book, so I need to read it more often.. > >Thanks for the info. By the way, I lived in Sydney from 1977 to 1991, where >I taught instrumental and eneral music for the Cape Breton Distrct School >Board. By the way, do you know a piano tech named "Red" Mike MacDonald from >Sydney? He tuned our piano in sydnet and is a good friend who got me >interested in piano tech away back in the 80's. > >Take care. > >Wayne Williams >Schroon Lake, NY 12870 >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Ross" <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> >To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> >Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:37 PM >Subject: American School of Piano Tuning > > >> Hi Wayne, >> Get the Arthur Reblitz book from the library, it might help. >> The unfortunate thing, is that it is hard to unlearn wrong methods that >> you have learned. >> Join the PTG as soon as possible, and possibly some RPT will take you >> under his wing. >> The help you get will depend on the amount of work available, in your >> area. Because it is kind of hard to train your future competition, if you >> are short of work yourself. >> Just keep working, doing the best job you can. >> Don't charge for the amount of time it takes you, if you are getting the >> job done by trial and error, the customer should not pay for your learning >> experiences. Charge for the amount of time it should have taken you, if >> you got it right the first time. >> John M. Ross >> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. >> jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wayne M. Williams" <wwilliams11 at nycap.rr.com> >> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> >> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:24 PM >> Subject: Re:American School of Piano Tuning >> >> >>> Dear John: >>> I took the course from the American School in the year 200, and found >>> that for repair work there is no easy way to explain it. It is indeed >>> inadequate in this regard, and I soon found myself up to my neck, so to >>> speak, in repairs I could not handle, I am in the middle of trying to >>> repair and 1912 Kranich and Bach upright, and the owner is frustrated and >>> growing more impatient by the day that I can't get it to work "right". I >>> probably should take the randy Potter course. Any suggestions? >>> >>> Wayne Williams >>> Schroon Lake.Y 12870 >
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