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<DIV>undergrad in cabinet making might be a better foundation</DIV>
<DIV>Chris Solliday</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 29, 2008 9:04
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] Tonmeister, baccalaureate
degrees, etc.</DIV>
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<DIV>Greetings, Colleagues -</DIV>
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<DIV>When I was working at SUNY Fredonia School of Music, 'til '95, they had a
very good program in sound recording technology. It was highly regarded
and had very high entrance requirements. Some of our best musicians were
in this Tonmeister program, which was a baccalaureate degree with all the
usual core requirements of other music major programs.</DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, Prof. Owen Jorgensen developed a baccalaureate program in piano
technology at Michigan State University, College of Music. That ran from
the early '70s until he retired in the early '90s. I was privileged to
be a guinea pig in his developing program in the late '60s. The
degree program also had the same core requirements as all the
other music majors. I returned as a guest lecturer in some of the
classes during and after my graduate studies (in musicology:
organology). The program was excellent, and a few of our most esteemed
colleagues came from it. However, it suffered from one defect in its
concept: Eighteen-year-olds almost never enter college with dreams of
becoming a piano technician!</DIV>
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<DIV>When I lectured in the program, in the late '70s, early '80s, we had an
interesting mix of students. Many of the students already had music
degrees, even graduate degrees. And some came from other walks of life;
I even had one student who was a physician (M.D.)! But we had relatively
few students who entered - and stuck with - the program through its
four-year degree curriculum. [ I think this must have been an important
consideration when MSU decided to retire the program along with Jorgensen, its
founder.] I always felt the program would "work" better if approached as
a master's degree curriculum, along the lines of how Library Science is
presented. Prerequisite would probably be an undergrad music degree, or
liberal arts degree with music emphasis. I hope someone picks up this
ball and runs with it!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">~ Tom
McNeil ~<BR>Vermont Piano Restorations<BR>VermontPiano.com<BR><BR>346 Camp
Street<BR>Barre, VT 05641<BR>(802) 476-7072
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/28/2008 7:28:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jim_busby@byu.edu writes:</DIV>
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Alan. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Ric, any help on this?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>reggaepass@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:58
PM<BR><B>To:</B> caut@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Degrees in Piano
Technology?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Jim, <o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">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?<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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understand that Owen Jorgensen had a degree offered where he was. Does
anyone know?</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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