This form, along with your current PTG membership card, is your passport to further testing and you keep the form until you pass all exams. After successful completion of the written exam and receipt of your Reclassification Form, you may make an appointment with a test sponsor for either or both of the remaining exams. We do not recommend that you schedule both the tuning and technical exams on the same day, since each one requires four or more hours to complete. Once the exam process starts, there is a four-year time limit. If you don't pass all three tests within this period, then one or more of them may have to be repeated.
Most applicants can finish in one hour or less.
Answer the questions as they relate to normal circumstances, not drawing on any experience in unusual or experimental repairs. Most questions aim at measuring your basic knowledge of piano technology and nomenclature. Once you have contacted a test sponsor and submitted the appropriate fee, you will receive a letter from the Chief Technical Examiner confirming your appointment time and place, and specifying the tasks you will be asked to perform. Unless your letter specifies otherwise, you should plan to bring all needed tools and supplies with you. In both the grand and vertical regulation portions you will be regulating action models.