<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Calibri; } @font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } @font-face { font-family: Book Antiqua; } @font-face { font-family: Consolas; } @font-face { font-family: Informal Roman; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; mso-style-priority: 99 } PRE { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New"; mso-style-priority: 99; mso-style-link: "HTML Preformatted Char" } TT { FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New"; mso-style-priority: 99 } SPAN.HTMLPreformattedChar { FONT-FAMILY: Consolas; mso-style-priority: 99; mso-style-link: "HTML Preformatted"; mso-style-name: "HTML Preformatted Char" } SPAN.EmailStyle20 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: "Book Antiqua","serif"; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-style-type: personal-reply } .MsoChpDefault { mso-style-type: export-only } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd love to see educating faculty and administrators on the difference a good technician can make as part of the CAUT Academy's mission, but </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm skeptical a brochure is the way to go. I think we need to use the internet.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The CAUT website could be redesigned (it desperately needs it anyway) with a primary focus of delivering this message on the front end, and moving the technician focused material to the back. The existing site is very outdated, and the importance of this message was not considered when it was designed. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe I can carve out some time to re-design the website, and others have expressed an interest in taking that on, but it may be our message is too pressing to continue trying to do this with volunteer help... </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Les brings up another interesting point-- I worked on an Aeolian spinet for an English faculty member. His son was studying with one of our piano proffs. and grew into a fantastic pianist. I thought he must be coming over here to practice and asked about it. Nope, nearly all his practice time was on that pitiful excuse for a piano... When playing our Ds here for recitals or competitions you would never guess what he was practicing on at home. He's at Yale now. Blew my entire theory of providing the best possible instruments right out of the water. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I maintain that this is an exception when it happens. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The plot thickens--that boys father is now my Dean! Very thankfully he totally gets it, and has worked very hard to keep my happy here, and provide me as many resources as he can find to maintain and replace our aging piano inventory. He also asked me to look out for a Steinway to rebuild for his son....</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think the angle to take with faculty is what we can do for them and for their students, but the angle with the administrators is how that translates into getting more and better students, and then keeping them! </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scott, CAUT web slave.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=015090213-22082008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel)<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 22, 2008 7:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'College and University Technicians'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] CAUT position announcements, CAUT Academy<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=Section1> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'">Wim,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'">I like the idea of a CAUT brochure…I don’t think we should directly mention salary in there but anything we can do to enhance the concept of hiring experienced, qualified people for these positions rather than the lowest bidder will hopefully accomplish the same thing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'">I’ll see what we can do.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'">Eric<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Informal Roman'">Eric Wolfley, RPT</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Informal Roman'">Director of Piano Services</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Informal Roman'">College-Conservatory of Music</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Informal Roman'">University of Cincinnati</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Willem Blees<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:51 AM<BR><B>To:</B> caut@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] CAUT position announcements, CAUT Academy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in">Instead of us discussing amongst ourselves how bad a school is for offering a sub standard salary, perhaps it would do us more good to "educate" the school. Although it is important for "us" to know how to approach a school and ask for a salary commensurate with our abilities, it will ultimately be up to the school to decide how much to pay a piano technician. But since most school do not know how much a competent piano technician needs to be paid, and more importantly, why, perhaps the best approach is for CAUT to develop a brochure outlining the why a school should hire a qualified piano technicians and pay him/her a salary commensurate with his/her abilities. This brochure would be sent to schools who are in the market for a piano technician. <BR><BR>Just a thought. <o:p></o:p></P> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Honolulu, HI<BR>808-349-2943<BR>www.bleespiano.com<BR>Author of <BR>The Business of Piano Tuning<BR>available from Potter Press<BR>www.pianotuning.com<o:p></o:p></P></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"><o:p><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></o:p> </P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>