Yes you can!
And here's the proof!

This video was originally one hour and was heavily edited to make it shorter. The original unedited raw footage is below.

0:00 Introduction.
0:11 The reason for this call is to prove these results are real.

Review of Another Popular Online Piano Tuning Course.
0:21 Other online courses "have no human feedback".
0:34 "[The IPTS] course has feedback and that's something I never had before."
0:47 (re:other online popular online courses) "There's no private lessons, there's no conversation, there's no reason to . . . let the knowledge soak in."
0:57 After I took the other course, "I didn't feel confident at all about tuning a piano. I needed feedback."
1:18 "I was sick of spending hours and hours in a temperament trying to get something that sounds OK."
1:23 "I also thought I had good unisons before your course."

1:43 Kevin Knopp's Experience As a Concert Technician.
- Tuned 40,000 pianos
- Tuned for Doc Severensen, Woody Herman, Siegel-Schwall Band, The Capital Steps, Philip Glass.

1:56 Kevin Knopp on the IPTS.
- "You know your stuff"
- "I know the value of communication and professional evaluation"
- "Those were the two aspects of your course that sold me on it"
- (2:28) "That gave me a feeling that Mark's course (IPTS) is a legitimate course. If you follow through you're going to have the basis to become a quality professional piano tuner. It's a good solid course."

2:09  Kevin's experience with another tuner who took another popular online course.
- "Her course was videos and quizzes with no professional evaluation"
- "I offered to evaluate her tuning and she ghosted me" (Possibly because of lack of confidence due to poor preparation from course)

2:39 Kevin's experience evaluating Stephen's tuning.
- Evaluated on a good quality Yamaha C7 concert grand piano.
- "The temperament was masterfully tuned."
- "The tenths were very consistent"
- "The unisons were virtually flawless"
- "It was a tuning that I could have done but I've been tuning for 40 years!"

3:10 IPTS Levels.
Level 1 - Do not tune for money
Level 2 - You can tune for non-critical tunings but not for professional musicians or conceret halls
Level 3 - Professional musicians and conceret halls, ok, but I have some concerns.
Level 4 - Professional musicians and conceret halls. No concerns.

3:36 Stephens tuning result: Level 4- (3.75/4)
Kevin was asked, "How long did it take you to get to where Stephen is now?"
Kevin said, "Probably three to four years."

4:01 Did Stephen learned on a spinet!?
- Yes
- Wurlitzer spinet riddled with false beats
- He only got a better Yamaha after unit 18 or 19 of 21 units.

4:38 Was Stephen's first tuning on a grand piano when he tuned for his evaluation?!
- Not really.
- He tuned two before, but this was his first time with the Mark Cerisano Tuning System

4:55 Stephen's experience tuning the grand with the Mark Cerisano Tuning System.
- "Your system is self-correcting"
- "Just having that confidence of, 'I know what I'm listening for [helped]' "

5:03 How did the hammer technique Stephen learned at IPTS help him tune a completely different piano from what he was used to?
- "The education I had on hammer technique before your course was, (making fun) 'Oh, well, ya know, start sharp and ease it flat' , or just knock it in. (Note: hard blows are unsafe, damaging, and dangerous."
- About other common instructions, "There's no system or idea on why something isn't this working."
- Mark: "So the feedback approach helped you to go in there, start tuning, and immediately know what to do?"
- Stephen: "Absolutely!"

5:44 How many hours of instruction did Stephen take with IPTS?  
- "I finished the course in maybe four months."
- "It was twice a week, two hours a week, for four months. 40 hours."
From Stephen's records: Started Jan 15, 2024. Ended May 30, 2024. Twice a week. 136 days. 19.5 weeks. 39 instructional hours.

6:02 How many hours a day did you devote to the IPTS piano tuning course?
- At twice a week, and admittedly being a perfectionist working on a spinet, Stephen relayed that he spent about four hours a day. We agreed two hours a day, if taking a full year to study, would reap excellent results. Others who had better pianos have told me they only needed one hour a day.

6:43 Stephen's final unit marks.
- Lower marks while learning to tune unisons. (Units 1 and 2)
- Very high marks after unit 2, many at 100%
- Some lower marks in the high treble as we navigated the false beats.
- Final mark: 93.5%, Level 4- "Concert Tuner"

7:30 What is so good about IPTS? - Stephen
- Having a system that is clearly mapped out, segmented, with feedback.
- One-on-one lessons that grade submissions
- Being able to grade your own units
- (Most students who learn to grade their own units before handing them in, do much better)
- "[Bandpass filtering is] definitley is an instant way of [knowing] 'Here's what you are listening for.' "

8:14 Stephen's advice for beginners.
- Train with feedback
- Feedback is the only thing that will help you feel like you are going anywhere
- Without personal feedback you're going to be lacking for a while and not getting there as quickly.
- The feedback and lessons is what helped me quickly learn
 
8:35 What is Stephen doing now?
- Starting to tune more and more
- The phone is starting to ring which is exciting
- Playing a piano you've tuned is pretty rewarding
- Stephen is the floor tuner at the local Yamaha dealership.

8:51 Where is Kevin at with his business?
- He (jokingly but still somewhat serious) said that he dreads when the phone rings.
- He worries how he is going to fit new tunings in.
- Getting two technicians (Stephen and Ross) from IPTS has helped him greatly.
- Before Stephen and Ross, it was a "complete dilemma" for him as to what to do with tuning calls.
- It's great to be able to recommend Stephen and Ross and not have people have to suffer with a bad tuner who can't or won't do a good job for his customers.
- Kevin has complete confidence that Ross and Stephen will perform quality tunings and are good human beings that have a professional approach to their work.

9:36 Presentation of Stephen's certificate

10:07 Kevin's closing remarks
- Kevin appreciate's Mark Cerisano's work and the IPTS.
- Mark Cerisano is a legitimate, wise perpetrator of the great tradition of piano tuning.
- Piano tuning goes all the way back to Pythagoreas.

The original interview was over an hour long. The video below is the unedited version.

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