Susan writes, inre Diane's acquisition of a school account:
<< You are laying up treasure every time you tune for them. Maybe you
should think of it as a savings account, just without interest. >>
The gold mine in the school setting is the recommendations from the
faculty to their students and the pianists in the community. The foundation is
developing a personal relationship with the teachers, and the first thing
you have to sell them is yourself. If you do that successfully, you will
reap benefits that can almost make the income from the school negligible, ( I
said "almost").
Teachers usually enjoy far more credibility than they deserve when it
comes to instrument recommendations, but that is the way it is and we need to
be mindful of that. They wield inordinate power in the piano playing
community. Once they trust the tech, they will be more open to suggestions that
may challenge their deeply held, idiosyncratic beliefs. (I have had teachers
tell students to clean their ivory with milk, that only left-handed tuners
were really able to tune at concert level, that once a piano was tuned to
442 it would never hold pitch at 440, etc.)
Maybe we could start a new thread of the oddball things we have heard
from piano teachers!
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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