Point taken, David. I didn't mean to be overly specific to you. More, it's been suggested in this thread a few times by a few people, and I thought it worth revisiting. WRM On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:18 AM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > I actually don't think the test is meaningless. I was trying to make a > point. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > (sent from bb) > ------------------------------ > *From: * William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> > *Sender: * pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > *Date: *Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:56:10 -0600 > *To: *<pianotech at ptg.org> > *ReplyTo: * pianotech at ptg.org > *Subject: *Re: [pianotech] [Pianotek] the big discussion > > It seems to me that the "point" of the RPT tuning exam is (at least one > point) is allowing candidates to demonstrate that they have a certain level > of control over where they place *anthing* on the piano. It may not > represent where any one of us might prefer to tune the entire piano when all > is said and done. It does however, set forth an objective criteria, and > asks each candidate to demonstrate how accurately they can produce the > result that is being asked for. Can you tune a 4:2 octave, etc.? Can you > control your tunings enough to get clean single octaves in the high treble. > The test asks each of us to be able to demonstrate particular skills sets > that are necessary for the tuning process. > > I don't understand why the standards are considered meaningless by any. It > seems very reasonable to me, very objective, to be asked to demonstrate that > you indeed have a level of control that allows you to execute to achieve a > particular standard, to achieve a particular result, for testing purposes. > When it comes down to it, that's all we can really judge anyway. When we > start talking of degrees of stretch for octaves, width of fifths and > fourths, how to handle the breaks so they sound best, subjectivity is the > rule, and would be, I think, unquantifiable. > > William R. Monroe > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110201/ab529e3f/attachment.htm>
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