Here comes the pitch

[Tony Caught]

Bob,

 Are you a RPT ? are you a member of any piano association ? or are you just cheesed of that a lot of "piano tuners" just sort of tune pianos. 
How many tuners actually regulate pianos, or reface hammers or tell their customers what is wrong with their piano and how much it will cost to fix it up. ?
Funny thing is that when you use a tuning program like Tunelab or Veritune or or you know how good or how bad the last tuner was. Study it and you can tell who the last tuner was.
Tuners who tune aurally in some cases seem to follow the same pattern of errors (according to an ET) which is consistent with their perception of what is correct. To you and me it may not be but to their customers it may be. Who knows.
Talking to another tuner in this country called Australia, We came to the conclusion that now that most of the tuners of concert pianos are using ET's it has made the tuning of concert pianos much easier. (less variation ?) Does not mean to say that if you have a good name for tuning concert pianos aurally that you are not tuning correctly.

Am not a member of any piano organisation in Australia because they will not let me join in my home state. But this does not mean that they (the others) can't tune pianos. Sure they should all have to do a test, but , they all agree that if you learnt from someone else, somewhere, then you must be able to tune a piano.

If you believe that a RPT is not doing the right job or can't tune why not write or phone his chapter and explain why you think that that person should do another test. But keep it of this list.

>From that grumpy old bloke in Australia.

Tony Caught
Australia
0427 850 737
acaught at internode.on.net


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ITUNEPIANO at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:42 PM
  Subject: Re: Here comes the pitch


  I've always said that RPT's should be re-tested every 5 years.  Doesn't have to be a formal test, simply tuning a piano prior to a meeting for the group to hear would suffice.  Also, the RPT tuning tests don't simulate a real tuning.  They don't test for pitch raises, which is 70 percent of what I do.  And..I've never seen a piano where every other note is sharp, and the others are flat.  Stability aside, the tests should approximate what we do every day, and they don't.  Do I see a council proposal for next year??? Perhaps. Bob.





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