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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2007-01-10 12:19
Just a quick question. Other than perhaps doing an apprenticeship with a reputable tech, do any courses exists which train people in this type of profession?
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Author: Jhall
Date: 2007-01-10 12:33
There's a good course offered at Southeast Technical School, part of the Minnesota State College, in Red Wing, Minnesota, USA. It's not too far from Minneapolis/St. Paul. I have a friend who completed this course and is busy as a tech.
Perhaps a google search will bring up a closer site.
Good Luck,
John
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-01-10 12:42
Ferree's tools company sells a reprint of the Eric Brand repair book. It has all basics from pads to cracks and even making keys from scratch.
-S
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Author: ClariTone
Date: 2007-01-11 03:23
The NAPBIRT website has a link to colleges in the United States that offer certification, diplomas, or degrees in band instrument repair (although more than likely, after one has completed the courses, they must apprentice before they can sell themselves as a full-blown "professional" repair technician...)
Also you could conduct a search in the archives...I recall myself posting a thread just like this one...
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2007-01-11 07:45
Has anybody had any experience with the Renton Technical College with their Band Instrument Repair Technology program? Just outside Seattle
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-01-11 08:24
Friend of mine is at Red Wing now. It's *the* place in the U.S. The other place to look at in the U.S. is in Washington; I think it's the one Nick is talking about. The program there is two years, vs. Red Wing's one year.
Those two, though, are about it, as far as I've heard.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2007-01-11 10:07
For Renton it says:
Program Length:
3 quarters
1260 hours/
74 credits
Monday - Friday,
7:00 AM - 1:30 PM
I assume that means a semester and a half. From say September till March or something?
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2007-01-12 02:30
A former student of mine is studying repair at Merton College in London and is very pleased with the training she is receiving there.
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Author: pewd
Date: 2007-01-12 03:34
Gordon,
click 'help/rules' at the top of this page - 1/2 way down the resultant page it tells you how to do it [ url ] url goes here [ /url ] (without the spaces)
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2007-01-12 10:18
Thanks pewd and GBK. So why is that URL not blue, like most others? Has somebody specifed "blue", in html, for the others?
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2007-01-12 10:37
Merton sounds good but I don't want to do a 3 year course in brass as well as woodwind, and the other other courses they have are 1 day per week. Renton is about a year and is really appealing to me.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-01-12 11:04
Gordon (NZ) wrote:
> Thanks pewd and GBK. So why is that URL not blue, like most
> others? Has somebody specifed "blue", in html, for the others?
The URLs are colored by your browser's default - there's no extra coloring. The default for most browsers is blue=unvisited, black=visited.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2007-01-12 11:34
Hmmm...... Actually, on almost every site links are blue=unvisited, black=visited, like GBK said. Only on this site (maybe others too but I can't remember even one other right now) even unvisited links are black.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-01-12 11:40
clarnibass wrote:
> Hmmm...... Actually, on almost every site links are
> blue=unvisited, black=visited, like GBK said.
Mark said ... :^)
Since I do the HTML & programming along with moderating, I know what's there. No, the CSS says blue for unvisited, black for visited, red for hover. Your browser can override.
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