[CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments

[Jeff Tanner]

David,
Should the photocopy maintenance also answer to the music administration?
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments


> Agreed, I think it depends on the music administration.  Eliminating them
> from the loop seems pretty difficult.  At Stanford I've always had very 
> good
> experiences with the Music Administration and invariably they need to
> coordinate use and budget requirements anyway so it's hard to ignore them.
> My experience is that the farther away you get from the department 
> involved
> the more bureaucratic it gets.
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of 
> Mitch
> Staples
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:50 PM
> To: Jeff Tanner; caut at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> I disagree.  The piano technician is as much part of the music department 
> as
> anyone else and should answer to the music administration.  If the
> administration doesn't respect the piano technician that's it's own 
> problem.
>
> I don't see any benefit in a service department, it's just another layer 
> of
> bureaucracy, and makes us look like a run of the mill fix-it guy.  In my
> school I constantly fight being pigeon holed as a maintenance person.
> Granted much of what we do is maintenance, but the most important things
> (bringing out the expressive potential of performance pianos) are art.
>
> Maybe my situation is rare (I thought it was the norm) but I have just as
> much sway in relevant matters as any professor and more than many.  Now If 
> I
> was paid as much as most professors I'd be happier, but that's a different
> thread.
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Mitch Staples
> Ohio State University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> Jeff Tanner
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 4:16 PM
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments
>
>
> I understood that your boss is not affiliated with the music department. I
> would be 100% in favor of every CAUT situation in the country not 
> answering
> directly to music admin, but to a similar type of situation as what you
> have.  Just like service departments in dealerships shouldn't answer to
> sales staff, maintenence people shouldn't answer directly to anyone who
> doesn't really understand maintenance.
> Jeff
>