>Everyone is getting fatter... True enough! But maybe the demographic problem is with the benches, not the students and profs. Were most of them bought at around the same time? Maybe they all are getting decrepit and senile at once? Come to that, aren't most of the piano techs getting decrepit and (hopefully not) senile in lockstep with each other? Who is going to replace us in ten or twenty more years? Shall we do a little informal CAUT survey --- how old is everybody? Retirements imminent? Plans for how long to keep working? (only if you feel like telling us, of course.) I consider myself just passing through the outer fringe of semi-retirement. I've cut back general work about 30%, but still do all the concerts. I've started turning down (or trying to pass on) work involving tilting pianos, upright players still containing player actions, and square grands. I do lots of small repairs, some repinning and rebushing now and then, but full stringing and parts replacement I pass on to someone who does it full time. Susan Kline, 63
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