Jim, <div><br> </div> <div>You might want to at least take a look at what is required to become a "tonemeister" (our closest equivalent would be a well musically educated recording technician) in Germany. Ed suggested looking at recording technicians programs here in the states, which is a good idea, but those may not be high-powered enough on the music education side of the equation for a B. A.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Alan Eder<br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Jim Busby <jim_busby@byu.edu><br> To: poppyspys@yahoo.com <poppyspys@yahoo.com>; College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:22 am<br> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Degrees in Piano Technology?<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_c4e94b3b-2a96-4ec5-b7f3-05daccb6acbc"> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">But… there are no “degrees”? Anywhere? Does anyone know if U. of Western Ontario offers a degree? I couldn’t get that out of their website.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">If anyone should be given the right to give a college degree it would be NBSS. They are fantastic! Many other programs are very good too, but as someone pointed out to me, anyone can offer a “certificate” but if an actual accredited University has a degree if has a lot more weight with academia. (Not my words…)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I understand that Owen Jorgensen had a degree offered where he was. Does anyone know?</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I’m being pressed by a new University to pursue this but want to find a precedent, if one exits. It’s always harder to “reinvent the wheel”.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Jim</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><s pan style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> <br> </span></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id='u8CAD7571E03B153-B04-1C22' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Check out <A title="http://video.aol.com/show/ap/101923?ncid=aolvdp00050000000184" href="http://video.aol.com/show/ap/101923?ncid=aolvdp00050000000184" target="_blank">AOL Video</A> to see what's making news today!</FONT> </div>