piano class

[Alan McCoy]

Hi Folks,

I am still working on the curriculum and am enlisting the aid of David
Rostkoski (RPT and retired piano prof) for insights. I am very close to
sending the curriculum out to the folks on the committee for ideas and
feedback. I appreciate the ideas Ed.

Wim, I'd like to see the survey results.

I am now working with the chair to create a 1-2 credit workshop for next
summer session. We are dealing with the same sort of issues - how many
students does it take for a course to fly, 2 - 8 hour days or  5 - 3 hour,
1 - 1.5 hr, evening or daytime, downtown campus or main campus, title that
makes it clear that this is not a workshop for technicians but for pianists,
all the nittygritty.

Alan McCoy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> Mary Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:27 AM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: piano class
>
>
> 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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