Piano Training Question

[Steve Blasyak]

Thanks for your input Cliff.

The "If you want to know the truth" saying from the Chinese fortune cookie should have been prominently displayed on the top of your post. Many on the list seem to have opinions but not too many are interested in the truth on this topic. "Its too expensive to send back a VCR tape" come on. "He's too busy traveling to conventions". He's not too busy to go to the bank and cash your check.

Your post was right to the point. The good the bad and the ugly. the first honest post I've read on this topic thus far. Your the only one to date to tell Matthew the way it is to date.

Goin' fishin' for a week in the Sierras, so be nice.

Steve

Pura Vida


----- Original Message ----- 
From: The Leshers 
To: Pianotech List
Sent: 8/4/2007 9:38:33 AM 
Subject: Re: Piano Training Question


Matthew,

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matthew Todd 
To: Pianotech List 
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:56 PM
Subject: RE: Piano Training Question


Since we are on the subject of the Potter course, can someone please tell me they have had better luck with him than I have.

I really have an honest desire to learn this trade, and I need to at least finish this course before I can think about getting apprenticed, but it seems that response time has been an issue of the school.  In fact, I have been waiting for my video tape to be returned to me containing tuning critiques and it has been three years.  That is where I have left off.

I want to give this another chance, and I just want to start from the beginning, and I have e-mailed Randy several times to ask about starting over, but I have not gotten a response.

What to do?

Matthew
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