I was in China a couple of years ago to brush up on my once-fluent Mandarin. A friend at Xiamen University arranged for me to tune a number of pianos while I was there (what a great opportunity for language study!) and from what I saw and heard the skill level is pretty low. Everybody seemed to have at least one horror story about service. Most if not all of the techs are connected with a store or piano company, not many independents, and the concept of customer service is apparently not well developed yet. That's just what I saw in one area, maybe not representative of the country as a whole. Kerry Kean www.ohiopianotuner.com -----Original Message----- From: david at piano.plus.com [mailto:david at piano.plus.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:22 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies I happened to catch the second of the (UK) Channel 4 TV programmes in the series "The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies" last night. The 16 year old UK composer who is being featured, was in Shanghai to select a young pianist for the concerto he will write, to be performed at The Sage, Gateshead (NorthEast England). http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-greatest-musical-prodigies How charming and happy, and incredibly accomplished, all the young pianists were! They said in the programme, that there are thirty million young people learning piano in China. It seemed clear fromt he state of the pianos, that tuners have not kept pace with learners and manufacturers, in China!
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