<WBR>My Dean suggested an independent study in piano technology--learning the trade-- because there is interest among our students and because he can justify paying me as adjunct faculty for teaching a music related trade to conservatory students, most of who will need something other than music to keep them afloat after graduation, at least.  Sounds like the precedent for this may be additional staff who were hired to help teach web design to music technology majors, a required skill in a required class for them. <br> <br> Sorry for not stating that clearly up front.<br> <br> Alan Eder<br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu><br> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><br> Sent: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 5:06 pm<br> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Syllabus in Piano Technology<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_3b1249c0-26da-4056-9e6f-98ad977795fd>Alan McCoy collected various materials, but on the notion of a course about the piano (in some depth, with various levels of contact from full semester to one day presentation) for the general music student (especially those playing piano), leading to understanding the instrument. From what you say below, I am assuming you are after "becoming a piano technician" instead. If you need the other sort, say so and I can pass along some things, including an outline I did recently for a couple in depth presentations to piano majors. Teaching someone the trade, that's a completely different kettle of fish.<br> <div><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; webkit-nbsp-mode: space; webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Fred Sturm</div> <div>University of New Mexico</div> <div><A href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</A></div> <div><BR class=webkit-block-placeholder></div> </div> </SPAN><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></div> <br> <div> <div>On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:43 PM, <A href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</A> wrote:</div> <BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Ed, <div><br> </div> <div>Yes I do and thanks, I will!</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Alan Eder<br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Ed Sutton <<A href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">ed440@mindspring.com</A>><br> To: College and University Technicians <<A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>><br> Sent: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 1:37 pm<br> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Syllabus in Piano Technology<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_7b041066-de57-4288-99aa-2d56b15dbe71> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you mean piano technology with intention of becoming a piano technician, check the web sites of schools of piano technology. </FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not to be confused with piano technology as taught to performance majors to understand their instrument better.</FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed S.</FONT></div> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dporritt@mail.smu.edu href="mailto:dporritt@mail.smu.edu">Porritt, David</A> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:09 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 1px 0pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Syllabus in Piano Technology</div> <div><br> </div> <div class=Section1> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868">Alan:</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868">There was a sub-committee developing a syllabus some time ago, and Don Mc had some material.  I could dig through my .pdf files to see what I can find, or perhaps you already have that material.</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868">dp</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #215868; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas"> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #215868; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas">David M. Porritt, RPT</SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #215868; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas"><A href="mailto:dporritt@smu.edu">dporritt@smu.edu</A></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #215868"> </SPAN></div> <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"> <div class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN> <A href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org">caut-bounces@ptg.org</A> [<A href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B><A href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</A><br> <B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:18 PM<br> <B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A><br> <B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] Syllabus in Piano Technology</SPAN></div> </div> <div class=MsoNormal> </div> <div class=MsoNormal>Greetings List, </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal> </div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal>I just got the go ahead to offer an independent study in Piano Technology to one or two students (for which I will be paid as adjunct faculty, a substantially higher rate than what I get paid for servicing pianos and training and supervising students assistants).</div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal> </div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal>I need to prepare a syllabus to submit by the end of the week and am in the process of developing one.  Just wanted to get some input from any of you who have done this before, particularly syllabi that have been used and revised over many years.</div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal> </div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal>Thanks,</div> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNorm al">Alan Eder</div> </div> <div id=u8CAEBBFC98D9DCC-17E0-163B> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 7.5pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 7.5pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Find phone numbers fast with the <A title=http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001 href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001" target=_blank>New AOL Yellow Pages</A>!</SPAN> </div> </div> </div> </BLOCKQUOTE></div> </div> <div class=aol_ad_footer id=u8CAEBDC92896DF9-EC0-1620><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Find phone numbers fast with the <A title=http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001 href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001" target=_blank>New AOL Yellow Pages</A>!</FONT> </div> </BLOCKQUOTE></div> <br> = </div> <div id='u8CAEC03FDF46E51-17E8-2849' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Find phone numbers fast with the <A title="http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001" href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001" target="_blank">New AOL Yellow Pages</A>!</FONT> </div>