[CAUT] beginning luck

[Dale Erwin]

I am a C.S. Lewis fan but this doesn't really resonate here. I hope there is an end in view?
 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Fischer <brent.fischer at yahoo.com>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 8:39 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] beginning luck




Dale,
   
    C.S Lewis once said "criticism should have and end in view 

--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com> wrote:


From: Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] beginning luck
To: caut at ptg.org
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 9:02 PM


  Hey Brent
 Disconnect? What disconnect?  
 I guess I missed that one . So, (this designer/re-designer of a variety of types of board structures),..... was too busy working at the college.
 Am I pickin up some continuous undercurrent of bias.?

 

Dale S. Erwin
www.Erwinspiano.com




 
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Fischer <brent.fischer at yahoo.com>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 7:26 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] beginning luck




Hey Fred,


   It's ironic to me that the same disconnect between "re-designers" and
institutions parallels in much the same way as the Steinway lack of
technical follow up after an "All-Steinway" school has paid a million
for the designation
Brent 







--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote:


From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
Subject: Re: [CAUT] beginning luck
To: caut at ptg.org
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 2:20 PM


On Feb 26, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Brent Fischer wrote:

>  secondly get to Steinway
> factory sessions often and mostly get to their C&A training in the basement
> and come away with their endorsement of your work, and leave your
> electronic tuning aid at home when you go.


Hi Brent,
    I think the C & A training (if you mean the final of the four regular one-week sessions) has changed quite a bit since you went. A couple years ago when I went, there were four of us in the usual room, and the only real difference between it and the "tone regulation" session was that we had Bs and Ds instead of smaller pianos. No work in the basement. I was disappointed, as I had heard there would only be two students, and there would be some work with the C & A guys, maybe in the basement. Of course, since then Kent Webb has taken over the "Academy" so it might have changed again.
    No need to leave the ETD behind, in fact better not to, as tuning was done by all four simultaneously, with only flimsy doors dividing us. Oh, and "their endorsement of your work" is at best informal. It is made clear that you are not certified by Steinway, though I did actually get a certificate for the last session. But it said something like "attended the concert prep session," not even weak wording like "completed." Obviously you can let people know you did the training, but you are not supposed to imply anything beyond that. The world changes.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu










      
 




      
 
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