<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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 apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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: 1 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 s="" tyle="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <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" target="_blank" href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/?NCID=emlweusyelp00000001">New AOL Yellow Pages</a>!</span> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div>  </div> <div id="u8CAEBDC92896DF9-EC0-1620" 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></blockquote></div><br></body></html>