Tuning course by correspondence

[mrdaveux]

I am a piano teacher but I was considering expanding my business with tuning and piano servicing.

I see several courses by correspondence, the most interesting being the American School of piano tuning and Randy Potter course.

The former is cheaper ($1300 versus $1700), but the latter seems more comprehensive and complete.

Anybody has learned through one of these? Recommandations? Thanks.

[pianistimo]

www.strobosoft.com  looks interesting, too.

here's an interesting article, too:

https://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/piano.html

this is a sort of do it yourself - whenever you want, type tuning.

i found it interesting that really good tuners usually tune twice in succession in those spring or fall times (when weather changes).  if you get a tuner that doesn't do that - you won't get as good or long lasting a tuning, imo. 

here's one of five lectures that is mentioned at the end of that article about timing:

www.speech.kth.se/music/5_lectures/askenflt/askenflt.html

[quantum]

This is a great book:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1879511037/qid=1138245884/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1660145-5167315?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

[blackstone]

If I may plug my online piano tuning tutorial:
The tutorial features the entire tuning downloadable as MP3 files, as well as pages of advice and explanation.  It is free, and I don't have anything to sell.  Check it out if you are interested:

www.blackstonepiano.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm

Colin