[pianotech] China

[Marcel Carey]

HI Ken,

 

I find this amazing. I wonder if there is an estimate of how many pianos are actually in use in China. Thing is you'd actually would have to speak and understand the language to go there and teach. There must be at least a few piano tuning schools in China. Does anyone know numbers?

Marcel Carey, Sherbrooke, QC
 


Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:46:01 -0600
From: kennyfin at telus.net
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] China


Greetings list:

 Last May I went to China; Beijing and Tian Jin to be specific.

I visited all the piano stores I could find, and found not one up to pitch. Trying to explain piano memory was beyond their comprehension. There was one BALDWIN upright that was near A440.

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Then the thought occurred to me that a piano tech could do very well there teaching chinese piano tuners the concepts of piano technology. I wouldn't mind doing that myself for a couple of years.

First, let's get them to recognize international standard, A440.

Regards,

Kenneth Finlayson, CAPT

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