Tech Training Help

[Tim Coates]

Avery,

Start him with key rebushing and repinning.  I know other university 
shops that do this.  I tried it myself with several people and it 
worked.  It gets the person doing jobs that can be corrected if they 
screw up (shows them mistakes happen, so fix it).

Tim Coates
University of South Dakota
University of Sioux Falls

On Mar 26, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Avery Todd wrote:

> List,
>
> I recently had a grad student come to me and ask about learning to
> do piano work as a TA or Work Study. To make a long story short, it's
> been approved and he'll probably be starting some time next week.
> He's a composition major and also a pianist and is a TA already, so
> they're just transferring 4 hours a week to me. I know it's not much
> but it's 4 hours help I've never had before and at least it's a step
> in the right direction!
>
> Since I've never really trained anyone from scratch, can someone
> who maybe has, give me any ideas about the best way to go about
> it? I figured probably mostly shop type work in the beginning and
> later, start him learning to tune. I'm going to try and get the
> Reblitz book to at least give him something to study and learn a
> few things that way. Any suggestions to make this work smoothly
> and be beneficial to him as well as me, would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Avery
> ________________________________
> Avery Todd, RPT
> University of Houston
> Houston, TX
>
>
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Tim Coates
University of South Dakota
Universtiy of Sioux Falls