BACK ON TOPIC-Band Instrument Repair

[Don]

Hi Jeff,

Unfortunately a "belief" is not proof. I wish it were. Even at music
schools where there are full time techs (who are over worked and underpaid)
pianos may suffer from less than pristine care. The average piano
instructor has more idea how their furnace works than their piano does. The
average parent (they pay the bills in the private sector) may have "heard"
that a piano needs to be tuned after it is moved.

There is no doubt in my mind that a wonderful, well tuned, well regulated
instrument can help a student do better, but I do not feel the opposite is
likely to "force" them to quit. If it did, all students who don't have a
grand piano would fall by the wayside--from inadequate mechanics of upright
pianos. 

At 11:36 AM 17/08/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>I think statements similar to these would be quite appropriate for a similar 
>literature offering from PTG. I believe that the single most common reason 
>piano students don't "stick with it" is that they are stuck with a sub-par 
>piano. My recollection is that we don't currently have any language in any
of 
>our brochures which addresses this issue.

>Jeff

 

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.

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