Hmmmmmmmmm I experienced Virgil Smith from a different angle. He was my sight singing teacher. He was not particularly pleasant, had absolutely no sympathy for people who hadn't done their exercises, and was merciless in his grading. Couple years later I accidentally found myself in a master's program, very poorly trained- but when I had to take the sight singing test they were shocked and was I produced. Took a long time to put that one together because I was very slow in some things. But having one of the most critical ears in the nation as a sight singing teacher paid off handsomely..... Les bartlett _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dale Erwin Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:41 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Virgil Smith Couldn't say that better myself. Being in Virgils class was like being in the kings court,.......Virgil seated on the bench/throne. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom piano restoration Ronsen piano hammers-sales R & D and tech support Sitka soundboard panels 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 10:38 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Virgil Smith On 9/27/2010 7:27 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: Virgil said, "There are two general categories of piano service: those who tune four or five pianos a day to make a living, and those who service a piano until it functions at it's best". True Virgil. Thanks for sharing, Wim. He'll be greatly missed. Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100928/c07fdff4/attachment-0001.htm>
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