---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Wimblees@aol.com wrote: > My question is, has he gotten in a bad habit or is this "standard=20 > procedure"?=A0I realize there is not much I can do about it, other = than=20 > work like a devil to get it right. But for my own curiosity,=A0is he=20= > asking for the moon on this? > =A0 > Wim > Hey Wim, It is standard procedure. If pianists are not using the full range of=20= the una chorda, they are not using the full potential of the instrument. That said, knowing what I know about institutional work, depending on=20 your workload, the venue schedule (amount of time you have to spend=20 with the instrument), the countless hours of use (wear) the instrument=20= receives, IMHO, he may be asking for, well, at least part of the moon. It is one thing to ask much of an instrument which spends most of its=20 week being preserved in a closet of a venue with a fairly flexible=20 schedule. But in many of our situations, often our concert=20 instruments, or at least the rooms they occupy, are as busy as the=20 pianos in the practice rooms. I think, given the overworked conditions of most of our positions, it=20 is impossible to provide every little hair of potential for every=20 instrument, all the time. Not to say we should not give it an effort,=20= but there just aren't enough hours available. But also for a faculty=20 member to not be considerate of all the factors which influence your=20 job is, well, inconsiderate. Just yesterday, I was asked to address a problem with the sostenuto on=20= our second performance piano here which is used on maybe 5 occasions a=20= year. It is stored in our recital hall, which is booked from daybreak=20 to midnight, daily, and a professor simply took my reservation time=20 which I had set aside for tuning the OTHER piano yesterday. I was=20 asked this morning why the problem wasn't addressed yet. Yes, sometimes they ask more than we have time to do. But we do need=20 to have the tools in our pocket when they're needed. Jeff Tanner, RPT School Of Music University of South Carolina= ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2158 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/55/c2/9c/ea/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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