<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 22, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Aside from perhaps your experience at USC, why do you think it’s silly? </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>Because the pianos that require concert experience make up less than 2% of the inventory.<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Concert work is only a fraction of the job, and in 90 percent of the situations, maybe even more, a good solid tuning with solid basic regulation and voicing will suffice for the concert work. It is misguided to base the majority of the job on such a small fraction of the work. A good concert tech might well hate tuning uprights, but that tends to be a large part of the job.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I realize a lot of techs on this list are in situations where more high profile concert activity is happening. But I would wager that most schools that have music majors aren't that fortunate. Most situations really just need a good solid technician.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Why do you suppose they might be interested in concert tuning experience?<BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>Well, they're judging based on the most visible instrument. The piano faculty (which tends to be what search committees are made up of) tends to know very little about the remainder of the inventory.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Certainly it couldn’t hurt to have a proven track record of being able to tune well enough for pianists in a concert situation.<BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Couldn't hurt, but it's vastly overrated. Concert tuning instability is due more to temperature changes and climate instability than lack of tuner skill.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> I agree that a tuning audition might be a bit silly unless there is somebody on the search committee who actually knows something about tuning.</SPAN></FONT><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><O:P style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Eric</SPAN></FONT><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><O:P style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></O:P></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>Exactly.</DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV></BODY></HTML>