I need to vent a bit based on my own experience.
Only recently I have stopped tuning pianos for a living. I started tuning in about 1983 and kept at it for 35 years. This was a second vocation I used to augment my income I received from small churches I pastored. I may tune a few church pianos in the coming years, but I have stopped tuning in homes because of the trend by women to sue men for rape and winning, regardless of what did or didn't happen.
But, my point in this comment is that the piano tuning trade is about 98% done by men. Can women make good piano tuners?
Answer: They can, and I have met one woman piano tuner who seemed to do good work. So, why are they not in the trade?
1. Piano tuning is not a trade that you can acquire by agitating for you rights. To become a piano tuner you need to study a very complicated process with no tolerance for less than perfection. There is no such thing as a fast tuning or a cut rate tuning. Every tuner learns early that, no matter whether it is a concert hall or a retired old lady with bad hearing, the only tuning that goes on every piano is a perfect one. If you try to do a less than perfect tuning, you will not be able to finish the tuning successfully. This trade is basically self-regulating by the mathematics and unforgiving laws of music.
2. Tuning a piano goes on and on for possibly hours. It all depends on the condition and brand of piano. Steinway made some shoddy grands in the 1970s when they were in financial trouble, and those pianos fight the piano tuner all the way. You cannot tell the customer he has a low quality Steinway. People all think that is impossible with Steinways. Also, once you start tuning, you cannot stop and walk off. A partly tuned piano is a train wreck if not completed.
3. Also, your either find tuning to be a new fresh challenge every time you tune, or you quickly hate the sheer boredom of the endless repetition of the process. I personally never got bored with tuning pianos. That is not because I am a better man than other men. It is simply because God put me together that way, and I never had to emotionally fight to keep tuning. Piano tuners have a very special temperament, and it is impossible to be an emotional person when at work and while tuning pianos. Women are made by God to react emotionally to frustration. Men get frustrated and decide to conquer. This is the main reason women cannot do well at piano tuning. It is not a trade you just learn by practice and determination. You cannot develop a negative attitude to your work and survive in piano tuning.
4. Just like plumbers and air conditioning tradesmen, you have to go into all sorts of homes, and you have to tune for men who actually ARE rapists. You don't get to quizz them ahead of time to see what they are like, and you may find they are decent until you are half way through the tuning. If you flee the home at that point, you will be sued for leaving the piano in a mess. You also have to tune in public schools where macho boys will see you as vulnerable and steal you tools when you are not looking. I personally have had some very ugly customers I had to deal with, like aggressive faggots and Satanists. It takes a lot of diplomacy, and even some threats, to make such men back off.
5. The day will come when some well known musician will call you for a tuning. When he hears you are a woman, he may just hang up on you at once. Performance piano playing is clearly dominated by men. This is because women play with feeling, and men play to conquer the music and the piano. The results are that the average audience loves the effect of conquest a lot more than a lullaby. Concert musicians are also picky and demanding and critical. They often demand things that cannot be done in the tuning process, and you will have to explain to them firmly that you cannot produce their every whim and fancy. Doing this man to man does not always work, but doing it woman to man is going to be virtually impossible. Concert musicians believe they know everything there is to know about music, that is, as they see it.
So, lady, go ahead, order a correspondence piano tuning course, get yourself a tuner friend as a mentor, and I promise you that you will be putting your tool kit on eBay about a month after booking your first customer. You simply cannot do anything a man can.
And, as Janice satirically points out, you need to hate me for telling you this. But, if you cannot lift just as much as the men you work with, and if you cannot climb a TV tower and replace the red flashing light bulb, don't apply for a job where you have to keep begging a man to help you finish the work. That is cheap feminism that a real man hates.
Are women better at anything in the music field than men?
Absolutely. Consider the career of Barbara Streisand. She has charmed the world with her exceptional voice control for many years. Another area where women do best is in piano accompaniment of congregational singing. Women, being created more emotional beings, know how to serve. Men know how to conquer. A man playing for congregational singing is like quarter back changing a baby's diaper- all thumbs. I have never allowed a man to accompany group singing in any church I pastored over the years. It just does not work. I do not know why, but women seem to do better at playing the harp than men do. Women are more agile and delicate at musical dance than men.
Stay away from jazz bands ladies. I do not know why, but men seem to do better there. It may be because of men's behavior behind the curtain.
Finally, there are exceptions to everything, but trends are a very good thing to consult before you run out in the world and go looking for a job to take away from a man, or visa verse men.
The human ear wants to hear high notes slightly sharp. Piano tuners know this and tune it into the treble on purpose. Barbara Streisand also learned this somewhere in her past, and she has mastered it. This is the reason she sounds so correct and sweet on the high notes, and that is why savvy women can charm the roughest macho man when they sing some songs.
Only recently I have stopped tuning pianos for a living. I started tuning in about 1983 and kept at it for 35 years. This was a second vocation I used to augment my income I received from small churches I pastored. I may tune a few church pianos in the coming years, but I have stopped tuning in homes because of the trend by women to sue men for rape and winning, regardless of what did or didn't happen.
But, my point in this comment is that the piano tuning trade is about 98% done by men. Can women make good piano tuners?
Answer: They can, and I have met one woman piano tuner who seemed to do good work. So, why are they not in the trade?
1. Piano tuning is not a trade that you can acquire by agitating for you rights. To become a piano tuner you need to study a very complicated process with no tolerance for less than perfection. There is no such thing as a fast tuning or a cut rate tuning. Every tuner learns early that, no matter whether it is a concert hall or a retired old lady with bad hearing, the only tuning that goes on every piano is a perfect one. If you try to do a less than perfect tuning, you will not be able to finish the tuning successfully. This trade is basically self-regulating by the mathematics and unforgiving laws of music.
2. Tuning a piano goes on and on for possibly hours. It all depends on the condition and brand of piano. Steinway made some shoddy grands in the 1970s when they were in financial trouble, and those pianos fight the piano tuner all the way. You cannot tell the customer he has a low quality Steinway. People all think that is impossible with Steinways. Also, once you start tuning, you cannot stop and walk off. A partly tuned piano is a train wreck if not completed.
3. Also, your either find tuning to be a new fresh challenge every time you tune, or you quickly hate the sheer boredom of the endless repetition of the process. I personally never got bored with tuning pianos. That is not because I am a better man than other men. It is simply because God put me together that way, and I never had to emotionally fight to keep tuning. Piano tuners have a very special temperament, and it is impossible to be an emotional person when at work and while tuning pianos. Women are made by God to react emotionally to frustration. Men get frustrated and decide to conquer. This is the main reason women cannot do well at piano tuning. It is not a trade you just learn by practice and determination. You cannot develop a negative attitude to your work and survive in piano tuning.
4. Just like plumbers and air conditioning tradesmen, you have to go into all sorts of homes, and you have to tune for men who actually ARE rapists. You don't get to quizz them ahead of time to see what they are like, and you may find they are decent until you are half way through the tuning. If you flee the home at that point, you will be sued for leaving the piano in a mess. You also have to tune in public schools where macho boys will see you as vulnerable and steal you tools when you are not looking. I personally have had some very ugly customers I had to deal with, like aggressive faggots and Satanists. It takes a lot of diplomacy, and even some threats, to make such men back off.
5. The day will come when some well known musician will call you for a tuning. When he hears you are a woman, he may just hang up on you at once. Performance piano playing is clearly dominated by men. This is because women play with feeling, and men play to conquer the music and the piano. The results are that the average audience loves the effect of conquest a lot more than a lullaby. Concert musicians are also picky and demanding and critical. They often demand things that cannot be done in the tuning process, and you will have to explain to them firmly that you cannot produce their every whim and fancy. Doing this man to man does not always work, but doing it woman to man is going to be virtually impossible. Concert musicians believe they know everything there is to know about music, that is, as they see it.
So, lady, go ahead, order a correspondence piano tuning course, get yourself a tuner friend as a mentor, and I promise you that you will be putting your tool kit on eBay about a month after booking your first customer. You simply cannot do anything a man can.
And, as Janice satirically points out, you need to hate me for telling you this. But, if you cannot lift just as much as the men you work with, and if you cannot climb a TV tower and replace the red flashing light bulb, don't apply for a job where you have to keep begging a man to help you finish the work. That is cheap feminism that a real man hates.
Are women better at anything in the music field than men?
Absolutely. Consider the career of Barbara Streisand. She has charmed the world with her exceptional voice control for many years. Another area where women do best is in piano accompaniment of congregational singing. Women, being created more emotional beings, know how to serve. Men know how to conquer. A man playing for congregational singing is like quarter back changing a baby's diaper- all thumbs. I have never allowed a man to accompany group singing in any church I pastored over the years. It just does not work. I do not know why, but women seem to do better at playing the harp than men do. Women are more agile and delicate at musical dance than men.
Stay away from jazz bands ladies. I do not know why, but men seem to do better there. It may be because of men's behavior behind the curtain.
Finally, there are exceptions to everything, but trends are a very good thing to consult before you run out in the world and go looking for a job to take away from a man, or visa verse men.
The human ear wants to hear high notes slightly sharp. Piano tuners know this and tune it into the treble on purpose. Barbara Streisand also learned this somewhere in her past, and she has mastered it. This is the reason she sounds so correct and sweet on the high notes, and that is why savvy women can charm the roughest macho man when they sing some songs.
