Let's cut to the chase

[Wimblees@aol.com]

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In a message dated 6/17/03 9:03:23 PM Central Daylight Time, 
pianos@traverse.net writes:

> We need to think creatively not only about ways to
> spend money but ways to raise it as well.  To that end Interlochen Center 
> for the
> Arts recently created what I think may be the first endowed chair of piano
> technology in the country.  

While on the one hand this is a great idea, what bothers me about this is 
that not only do we have to work for a living, if this trend continues, it looks 
like we will also have to work to find the money to pay us. 

Unfortunately, this is not just a minor problem with finding funds to pay the 
piano technician. This falls under the larger umbrella of funding the arts. 
In the United States, funding for the arts has always been a problem. While 
people will pay hundreds of dollars to attend athletic events, and think nothing 
of plunking down $20,000 to buy a fishing boat, which they use twice a year, 
asking them to give $50, much less $5000, to help pay for the arts, falls on 
deaf ears. 

If we are going to have to raise our own salary, it become even more 
imperative that we can show how the money is going to be used, and used judiciously. 
That is why we need to have in place charts showing how properly maintained 
instruments will not only play and sound better, but last longer. 

Wim 


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