Hi All, I'm wondering of your CAUTers that teach a basic piano mechanics class on how many students you usually have. This year, I have 6 signed up. The most I've ever had at once, and I'm wondering how to keep all 12 hands busy at the same time. I don't lecture in front of the classroom a lot, but rather, do a lot of hands-on teaching while explaining what I'm doing and then have them do it. Two years ago, I had 4, which was sort of chaotic for me. I really like 2 or 3, but 6!!?? The tuning basics was the hardest to monitor. I've developed a good plan of topics for them to learn and two "projects" they will be working on is a Yamaha U-1 for the first few weeks after teaching nomenclature, piano care, basic action functions and regulating on models. After the Yam, one of the grands from a practice room that's coming back with a new soundboard in a month or two. Since this class only meets for an hour twice a week, I won't be able to get really detailed on just one aspect of tuning, regulating, or repairs/rebuilding, but I want to touch on as much as I can. Am I making this too "cluttered"? I would like your input as to focusing on fewer topics, cover a spread of everything on the table, or something in between. Thanks! Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100111/7d38eae8/attachment.htm>
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