<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Wimblees@aol.com [mailto:Wimblees@aol.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:40 PM<BR><B>To:</B> caut@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> tuning and teaching<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.) <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>What are some of your thoughts on this? Any of you doing a little of both? <BR><BR>Wim <BR>U of Alabama</FONT> <BR><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002>[Breakall, Raymond] </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002>Wim,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002>I have a 30 hour a week job and my supervisor has suggested that I talk to the faculty about teaching in their classes about pianos when appropriate. She also said that I could maybe teach percussion lessons to the students. Nothing wrong with having variety.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002>Ray Beakall</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002>University of Richmond</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=820474515-26042002></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>