As all of you that attended the Toronto convention and AGM know, CAPT has a new mission statement and new bylaws that include a new code of ethics. Here is our new mission statement: The mission of the Canadian Association of Piano Technicians is to encourage the highest standards of piano service by offering opportunities for continuing education and fellowship in a supportive non-competitive environment. As you can see, our goal will be fellowship and continuing education. It's not “what you know that we want to know”, but “can you improve and learn”. What we would like to see is many smaller group meetings and seminars that each of you will be able to participate in and even help to organize in your region with your fellow technicians. With the new bylaws in place the "supportive non-competitive" aspect of our meetings will continue to improve as distinctions between members are now dropped.
As far as I am concerned, most of what I know I have learned from others. We face times when a lot of us will retire and for that, we need to share our knowledge. Young students are coming out of schools with basic skills and needing to develop a customer base, which might be more difficult now than those of us who started our tuning businesses more than twenty years ago. They need our support and encouragement. Some things we enjoy now, such as our good health, allows us to do good work for our clients; but even though we take this for granted now, our health may not be around as long as we wish. My sincere wish is that each of you is surrounded with friends who can take over jobs that you won't be able to do one day. I would rather see a friend take over some of my work than a stranger who I don't know.
This is only one of many good reasons to participate. The new web page "http://pianotu.ning.com" is a tool made just for this. It's for all of you to use. On my own, I can only do so much for the Association, but if all of you participate actively and ask other technicians to join, I think we will achieve things beyond what we imagined.
So, I am ready for action with a very good team of officers and I hope I can spread this enthusiasm. We need to stick together and bring more people into our ranks. Stay in touch with the community and all the best to you all!
Marcel Carey, President
As far as I am concerned, most of what I know I have learned from others. We face times when a lot of us will retire and for that, we need to share our knowledge. Young students are coming out of schools with basic skills and needing to develop a customer base, which might be more difficult now than those of us who started our tuning businesses more than twenty years ago. They need our support and encouragement. Some things we enjoy now, such as our good health, allows us to do good work for our clients; but even though we take this for granted now, our health may not be around as long as we wish. My sincere wish is that each of you is surrounded with friends who can take over jobs that you won't be able to do one day. I would rather see a friend take over some of my work than a stranger who I don't know.
This is only one of many good reasons to participate. The new web page "http://pianotu.ning.com" is a tool made just for this. It's for all of you to use. On my own, I can only do so much for the Association, but if all of you participate actively and ask other technicians to join, I think we will achieve things beyond what we imagined.
So, I am ready for action with a very good team of officers and I hope I can spread this enthusiasm. We need to stick together and bring more people into our ranks. Stay in touch with the community and all the best to you all!
Marcel Carey, President
Canadian Association of Piano Technicians -
L'Association Canadienne d'Accordeurs de Piano
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Welcome to CAPT - Marcel Carey
President Greeting
Dear Fellow Technician,
I feel privileged to be able to serve CAPT as the newly elected President. I appreciate your confidence and assure you that I'll do my best for the Association's interests and growth. But let me first thank the previous president Wayne Ferguson and the other officers of the previous board of CAPT. You guys did a lot of work and you really deserve to be publicly thanked.
I feel privileged to be able to serve CAPT as the newly elected President. I appreciate your confidence and assure you that I'll do my best for the Association's interests and growth. But let me first thank the previous president Wayne Ferguson and the other officers of the previous board of CAPT. You guys did a lot of work and you really deserve to be publicly thanked.