Dennis, others, It just makes sense to me that there should be practice rooms, and teaching studios. Beat the heck out of the practice room pianos and I understand it, but studio pianos, and CONCERT HALL pianos (for goodness sakes!!) should be kept as pristine as possible to allow artists and teachers to shine. It makes my heart sink when I find out that a teacher had to teach on a piano with a broken string, or several new strings that had sunk 30 cents or more. Maybe all teachers should open up their rooms and loan out their violins, celli, bassoons etc. to the students to practice. How would that be? You're absolutely right. To compromise on some things would be professional suicide. I'm seeing that. And this wanting students to have free rein with the concert hall pianos is about all I can bear. I still love being a CAUT, but this is pushing my mind elsewhere. The policies we had worked. Regards, Jim From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Johnson Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 10:35 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] FW: Concert hall pianos On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Laurence Libin <lelibin at optonline.net<mailto:lelibin at optonline.net>> wrote: Let's be grateful that the students want to practice, and do everything possible to encourage them. They could instead be doing lots more destructive things. Laurence Indeed, we are here for, and because of, the students. Unfortunately though it's never that easy. The only reason we hear this sort of statement is because we uphold the standard. To be tempted with compromise of that standard is seen by us as an offer of professional suicide. d. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091204/0da0b31e/attachment.htm>
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