<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>     Interesting and timely. I have always been amazed at the number of piano majors that have not even seen the inside of a piano, much less understand even the basics of touch, temperament, or tone production. I have been giving serious thought to putting together a seminar aimed at students (and faculty and administration) that addresses these issues.     Any suggestions? Have any of you done this before? Pitfalls?                                 Thanks in advance,                                Terry Neely RTP chapter                                 VERY part time North Carolina State Univ.   Wimblees@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>At the meeting in Rochester, I asked about a subject that is of interest to me. I suggested that for schools where there are not enough piano for a full time technician, or where there are too many piano for one, but not enough for two, etc.) that the tuner's position include teaching a couple of courses. What ever the combination would be to make the position full time. Kent was there, and he didn't like the idea. He gave an answer that didn't make much sense to me, and since we were really talking about the workload, I didn't want  to pursue the topic much further. If Kent is listening, I would like to ask if he could explain his reasoning for not liking the idea of splitting the position between teaching and tuning. I would also like to ask others on this list for your opinion. In addition to my position as tuner/technician, I also teach two classes per semester. One course I teach is called music management, which deals with the management of music, copyrights, licenses, running a business from a music perspective. The other class is careers in music, where we explore all the different jobs in the music field. And I teach a class on how to raise money for non profit organizations. As you can see, although they are related to music, I am not teaching them because I am a piano tuner. I asked if I could do this, for two reasons, I wanted to get back in the classroom, and I needed the extra money. In a sense I am working two jobs. (I actually get two different paychecks.) I have approached the chair about teaching a class on piano maintenance, not so much on how to tune and repair, but more on the line of what a piano is all about. I want to call it "care and feeding of a piano." I do not want to get into teaching tuning and repair. He is intereted in the class, but because of budget constraint, no new classes are being processed right now. What are some of your thoughts on this? Any of you doing a little of both? Wim U of Alabama</blockquote> </html>