[CAUT] harpsichord seminars

[Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)]

Jeff,
>From a business standpoint it sounds like it would be a good thing to learn! You could charge just 3x your normal rate and get all their business.

CAUT has offered a number of classes at the National dealing with harpsichords over the last few years but I'm sure learning would be much more comprehensive and permanent if done in a hands-on seminar format and we will be offering one as soon as possible. At the Institute this year in Grand Rapids, Robert Murphy will be teaching a class on harpsichord and fortepiano service. As Fred pointed out, the topic of servicing historic  instruments is definitely in the plans as part of a curriculum for a CAUT certification. For the purposes of general operational instruction on the topic, I don't think we really need to go far afield to find a person to teach... Perhaps Robert Murphy at Oberlin would be a prime candidate with assistance from Fred Sturm and/or myself. I know Fred has built a few instruments and I've been building and messing around with them (in my spare time, of course) since 1979 when I built a Hubbard kit. I'm currently trying to finish a French Double (instrument #8) so the topic is never far from my mind.

I think the goal of such a seminar should be for the student to be able to perform some of the more common maintenance operations such as winding a new string loop ( knowing which kind of wire to use, of course), replacing a plectra and voicing it to match its neighbors, regulating and replacing damper felt, maintaining and regulating the registers, learning about staggering the plucking between registers, removing, easing and leveling keyboards, regulating the buff-stop, etc...Throw in a little bit about the history, development and different types of instruments and I'm sure we could more than fill a 3 day weekend.

BTW Fred, I have that cartoon too...on my office wall.

Eric

Eric Wolfley, RPT
Director of Piano Services
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:40 PM
To: Ed Sutton; College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] harpsichord seminars

Interesting!  From what I've seen, they already make 5x what piano tuners make!
JT
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From: Ed Sutton<mailto:ed440 at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:50 PM
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HTG?
They're on strike for higher wages!
Ed S.  ;-)
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From: Jeff Tanner<mailto:tannertuner at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:37 PM
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Is there not a harpsichord/fortepiano organization similar to the PTG?
Jeff
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From: Fred Sturm<mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>
To: College and University Technicians<mailto:caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] harpsichord seminars

Hendrik Broeckman of Hubbard used to go various places to do three or so day workshops with kit builders. You might contact Hubbard and see if they still do that.
I don't know of anything else of that sort (ie, a workshop or seminar). Bringing someone to work on the instrument, and hanging out, watching, getting some instruction is probably the best option. Or maybe going to where someone is doing some work. Kathy Perl of the San Francisco area or Anne Acker of Savannah are a couple I'd recommend (Kathy is mostly a performer, but does a fair amount of re-quilling and prepping work, and is willing to teach). Both can be found easily on the web. There are no doubt others as well.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu<mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>



On Sep 20, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Paul T Williams wrote:



Hi List,

Does anyone know of a 1-2 week harpsichord workshop or seminar happening in the next year or so?  I fear my knowledge of harpsichords is limited and next year, we have an internationally known artist coming to UNL to perform on this and a forte-piano.  Fortunately the forte is in good shape (Thanks to Robert Murphy!!).  Our harpsichords are not in great shape and I need to learn quick!

Thanks

Paul

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