Cliff - my experience with the Potter course closely mirrors yours. I sent in my first one or two lessons/tapes and never heard a word. I gave up with that approach at that point. I decided to skip the correspondence and simply worked my way through the course on my own. My experience with that approach was that it only held me up in one area - aural tuning. I agree with you that the course text could have been a lot shorter - I'll bet 50% of the text could be deleted. I mean, of course, if I were a female technician I would want to know that I should keep a pair of work pants in the car so that I could change out of my dress and into work pants if I need to adust some trapwork or something in the lower bowels of the piano. But I'm not, and I really did find the reading a bit frustrating because of all the "touchy feelies" addressed (I actually have some more pointed comments of these, but I choose to keep them to myself). That being said, I still recommend the Randy Potter course as it is very thorough and up to date. The high quality meat is there, but you do have to wade through the moat to get to it. Oh, and you may need to, or prefer to, do it on your own. Terry Farrell Farrell Piano ----- Original Message ----- Not too long ago, I received my diploma 7 years, 7 months after having sent the final tuning tape. On the plus side, I became an RPT 7 years, 2 months before the diploma came. As far as I'm concerned, the course was just an expensive book that could have been a lot shorter. It has good information though (plus some tools and other touchy feelys) and is probably the best way to get started if you can't go to a residence school. Forget the correspondence. It's just a nuisance unless you have a lot of patience and are very young. Cliff Lesher WInfield, PA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070804/ca4bf776/attachment.html
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