piano class

[Mary Smith]

Hi Ed,

This was such a good message I printed it out to save for future 
reference. Thanks for all the good ideas!

Mary

>
>Greetings Wim,
>    Figures are good, but promises can be better, and speculation can be
>anything we want it to be......
>  If you can show good reasons for a class like this, it will help your cause.
>  These are some that I used:
>
>1.  ANY musician performs better when they understand their instrument, be it
>piano, piccolo, or vocal cords.
>2.  A course in Instrument awareness will pay for itself in better treatment
>of the school's instruments. 
>      Student's ignorance of the pianos care is EXPENSIVE.  
>3.  Many of these students will own or be around pianos for their entire
>life.  Knowing how to communicate    with tuners that they will have 
>to rely on is
>a skill that will stand them in good stead.
>4.  Those students that go on to performance careers really need to know how
>to talk to technicians if they are to get the most out of the instruments
>5.  Even those students that go into music related fields, such as music
>administration, choir leader, music teachers, etc.  will almost all 
>have to deal
>with pianos and their care.  Knowing something about the instruments will make
>them far better equipped in many professional capacities. 
>6.  Knowing what the piano's capabilities are will allow students to make the
>most of their practise time, since they will not waste time trying to perfect
>repetition or evenness of voicing on pianos that do not allow it. 
>7.  Ears do not automatically "open" up.  Understanding the problems of
>tuning as it relates to general intonation makes virtually all other musical
>endeavors easier.  How many of the faculty knows why we temper?
>8.  There is more than one way to tune a piano.  If you demonstrate a side by
>side comparison between ET and WT, you may find that faculty members are
>intriqued.........
>Good luck,  I guess I had it easy!   
>
>Ed Foote RPT
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>  <A HREF="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/399/six_degrees_of_tonality.html">
>MP3.com: Six Degrees of Tonality</A>
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