In a message dated 5/22/98 10:57:24 AM Central Daylight Time, connerja@muohio.edu writes: << JOB POSTING: PIANO TECHNICIAN, full-time staff position beginning July 1, 1998, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Require Bachelor's degree and certification from an accredited piano technology program plus five years experience as a technician. Desire concert tuning experience and registration as a piano technician in the Piano Technicians Guild. Responsibilities include providing maintenance and inventory control of approximately 100 pianos, including nine concert grands and two harpsichords. Duties include tuning, voicing, action regulation and repair; supervision and scheduling of all university-owned keyboard instruments, including preparation for frequent performances by guest artists of the highest international stature ... (blah, blah, blah>> They don't dare list how much they'll pay, it might be considered material for the joke List. While I fully meet all of these qualifications, I wouldn't even bother to apply because I make more money putting CA glue on Whitney Spinet tuning pins and yes, I consider it to be an appropriate, valid technique which may be used by professionals when the time and place are right. Besides, they might also make me tune in ET (yecchhh!!!). Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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