---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In regard to Anne's program offered at FSU, I think we need to take a serious look at our caereer as a whole, and what is hapeening to it. We had a short discussion this weekend at NCRC about the need for more piano tuners, and especially educated ones. Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that the average age of the members of PTG is 59 year. The main reason is that for a vast majority of our members, piano tuning is a 2nd career, either in retirement, or after 10 - 20 years working on other fields. With few exceptions, we are not getting any young people enterring our field. I think what is missing is a concerted effort on our part to talk to students, both high school and college, about getting into this field upon graduation. Unfortunately most of us are too busy to spend the right amount of time instructing and helping those students who are interested. But part of the problem too is the lack of schools that teach piano tuning. The question is, why aren't there more schools teaching a course of study in piano technology? The obvious answer is lack of students. But why aren't there enough students interested in this field? Is the answer perhaps our fault, that we have not explained adequately the opportunity for piano tuners to make a living. This is where I think we, as CAUT technicians, should take a more active role. Perhaps we should encourage more students to enter our field, if not by talking about the schools in Boson and London, but at least encouraging them to look at what Randy has to offer. If we are going to maintain our industry we have to start looking for our own replacement. 59 is not old, but it's certainly getting to the point where our own demise is imminent. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/85/8b/35/93/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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