<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Paul T Williams 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; "><FONT size="2" face="sans-serif"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> It's nice to know what they're talking about, but you can't "require" such a diversity of learning for being a CAUT. It just helps a bunch. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I think whether it helps a bunch is dependent on who thinks so. How would you know how much it has helped since you have the education? It is impossible to measure that versus how much you could have learned without pursuing the formal education the "establishment" requires.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yes, I'm like you. I had several majors, beginning with Information Technology, General Business, Risk Management and Choral Education, studying voice and being actively involved in several performing ensembles and other performing opportunities from the 1st day of classes my freshman year before I finished with the Business degree. Yes. I was taking major level voice instruction and representing the school at state wide competitions and other events as a Business major.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But to say it "helps a bunch" is difficult to measure.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We are machine technicians. What we actually do has little to do with music, whether we want to admit it or not. Music can be created when we are finished, but it is not necessary to know much about music to do high level piano work. It seems that persons with high levels of musicianship and musical training tend to pursue our craft, and also tend to be the ones who pursue CAUT work. But I believe it is possible to do very high level work in our field without much musical knowledge.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <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; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>