We also have an Advanced Tuning Seminar, available to students who want to prepare to take, and pass, the PTG Tuning Exam. (We have had students attend the Beginning seminar who are just starting out and have no experience at all.) Beginning and intermediate students are not expected to have much hands-on experience in either of these areas when they arrive – you will get that during the seminar. In order to assure maximum benefit to each student, students registering for the Beginning and Intermediate Training Seminar should have a basic understanding of tuning, repairing and regulating which you can gain from studying our home study course. You must be a PTG member and have your membership number, in order to take the exam.Įnrollment is open both to technicians who have taken, or are currently taking, either our Beginning or Continuing Education training program – and also to technicians who have not taken our course. The local PTG chapter will offer the PTG Written Exam during the week. This year we will be having a hands-on “Technical Exam Preparation Day” that is specifically designed around the PTG’s Technical Exam. One of the goals of the seminar is to prepare students and technicians to take and pass their Piano Technicians Guild Registered Piano Technician Exams, and many students do so after they return home. A technician with advanced level tuning skills but lower regulating skills, for example, will be able to receive advanced personal training to hone their tuning skills yet study regulating techniques at the level they are comfortable with. We are scheduling class and individual sessions to allow students maximum opportunity to get the training and personal attention – regardless of their current skill level. Many technicians have said they would like to get personal, one-on-one, hands-on training in tuning and regulating, but feared their skill level was not high enough to attend our Advanced seminar so we developed a Beginning and Intermediate Training Seminar to meet that need.īeginning in 1995 we began offering both programs during the same week. Depending on what the rebuilding technicians have scheduled while we are there, students may get to see pinblock installation, restringing, hammer hanging, hammer shaping, voicing, and other major rebuilding processes taking place while they are here for the seminar.īeginning and Intermediate Training Seminars In addition to the one-on-one tuning, repairing, regulating, voicing and business practices training students have received in our hands-on seminars over the past 25+ years, students will also get the opportunity to study in a real piano factory, which is now a complete rebuilding and restoration facility. While they no longer manufacture at this plant, they still maintain their marque, with their full line of Cunningham pianos produced for them, which they inspect and service upon arrival, including their new flagship 9-foot concert grand. Cunningham began making pianos in 1891, and over the years acquired and built pianos under the names of Girard, Forrest, Painter & Ewing, Overbrook and, of course, Cunningham. Since 2015, we have held our popular week-long, intensive, hands-on training seminar to the Cunningham Piano Factory and Restoration Center in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cunningham Piano Factory & Restoration Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |