[CAUT] CAUT Digest, Vol 19, Issue 44

[Kurt Ford]

Hi Techs, 
 
As I'm the one who left the University of Idaho I have been enjoying all of the subsequent posts. The talk of rating techs with a CAUT certification seems a joke to me as a lot of these University's standard's are lower than the RPT.
It has been mentioned in the past that we should start rating the universities instead as it is their standards that are too low.
 
I would suggest that we poll the Caut Techs for stats on all of the Universities and put together our own rating system for publication to prospective students and faculty. 
 
We could rate them on average age of piano fleet and break that down by performance instruments, teaching instruments, practice pianos for piano majors and general practice room pianos.
 
Budgets for piano replacement and/or rebuilding should be included.
 
The University of Idaho only had 5 practice pianos for 25 piano majors expected to practice 2 to 3 hours a day. Do the math.
 
Lack of good policy allowed the students to practice on the teaching pianos and the Professors to practice on the performance pianos. You can't keep up with this kind of abuse on pianos that average 80 years old
 
Include in that survey the number of pianos for each full time Tech and the salary paid.
 
Someone like Larry Fine should be approached with this idea. The great thing about it is with a web site and email mailings it could be done with little expense.
 
Kurt W. Ford, RPT
ford_kurt at yahoo.com.

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