If you can give them something hands-on as part of their quiz, keeps it interesting. Once we had teachers to our place. Borrowed my sister's Kawai grand action (sister piano to our Kawai). We had several of the teachers play the piano with a well regulated action in it. Asked for opinions. Then we took them around the shop to guess the numbers of holes in a pinblock we had removed previously, find the cracks in a bass bridge, etc. We ended up back in the front room, where the action had been replaced with the other action, which was Way Out of regulation, paper clips and other noise makers on the soundboard, etc. Asked their opinions of the piano--virtually everyone said it was very nice! Diane Hofstetter From: jrpiano at eastlink.ca Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:09:44 -0400 To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Presentation Show them how to remove pencils, that have fallen in. Show them how to take lost motion out of a pedal. Ok, I know that this would cut down on possible service calls, but think of the good will generated, and future jobs from their students. John Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia On 2011-01-30, at 9:12 AM, denisikeler at aol.com wrote: List, I am giving a technical presentation to a group of about 30 piano teachers on Feb. 15th. I looking for ideas on subject matter. I don't want to get too technical. Some ideas I have thought of so far, Humidity control in the home. A kind of "state of the union" type message, about the current condition of our profession. The differences in the soft pedal operation in uprights vs. grands. And how, habitual use of the soft pedal in grands will "unmate" the hammers. The differences in the "inertia" component in touch between digitals and real pianos. This should be a lot of fun. Midland Michigan was just voted the 4th nicest small town to live in the US by Forbes. They have a fantastic venue, the Midland Center For The Arts. And considering that the population there is about 40,000, I think "per capita" they have more piano teachers than any other place. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Denis Ikeler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110130/d5b32ced/attachment.htm>
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