Tuning and technical course...

[alessandro]

Dears,
Sorry to bother the whole forum with this question that is I think mainly a rather 'national' matter...
Since three/four years now I'm once in a while looking for some lessons, a course, an initiation in piano-tuning, technic, adjustement.  I have to say that I work - as it's called in market-terms - "full-time" and that I'm not willing to give up my job right away.   Now, the only response I get is in short - (I live in Belgium) - there's no such training in Belgium, you have to go to Germany, to Amsterdam, to England or to France for such 'schools'.  And the private businesses that are already established in those kind of services they say that they don't train people, or that they haven't got the time in doing so, etcetera...   It has gotten to a point where I - due to some discouragement (is it the right word ?) - I tend to think that the piano-maintenance branch is a sort of a mob, a maffia.  We have it and we don't let anyone slip in it "a new one, is a stranger and is a danger"...  I can't hardly believe that young people that are interested in the 'physical' instrument give up their lives in Belgium and move to Germany or England to study three years abroad...  The price for renting a place in England is so high...  And I'm not really willing to drive 300 kilometers to go and 300 kilometers back... 
So now, I try it via this 'worldwide' forum, and try to reach some folks or professionals to hear what good advice they have.  I would already be very pleased to have some 'education' every two or three weekends... 
I finally can take a risk to learn the tuning myself, no ? I won't be messing up my instrument 'for good' - even if I make mistakes they can always be corrected, isn't it ?
Thanks a lot dears, the sun is shining here, I wish you all a very fine day.