[CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments

[Jeff Tanner]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments


> Jeff-
>
> After many years of this dialogue, I think it's time you just told us 
> exactly what you want!
>
> Ed Sutton

I guess after many years of trying to convince everyone how to improve the 
salaries and working conditions for CAUTs who aren't in the Disneyland job 
situations, when I see an idea that either makes sense or confirms that the 
problem hasn't gone away, I feel like I need to comment.

Fred, all that person needs to be is your mediator. He/she would understand 
from you what is different about performance pianos vs practice room pianos. 
He/she offers the "this is what it costs for this level of service, #2 is 
what it costs for #2 level of service, if you want after hours service, the 
cost is 1.5 per hour with a 3 hour minimum, etc..." and the administration 
better understands that it gets what it pays for, rather than setting a 
salary for an individual and not being able to understand why he or she 
can't do the work of 3 people. Protections would be in place for the 
employee that do not exist in a system where the technician answers directly 
to a music administrator. That mutual respect thing doesn't work very well 
when you're the guy working through 3 bosses every 7 years, each of whom has 
different priorities, or as in Israel's case, would be one a year if he 
didn't have the mechanism in place that is there.

I was just commenting that I thought that sounded like a better scenario to 
me.
Jeff