<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Wim, I think our concerns are way below the radar of politicians, educators and college chancellors, and that it will always be a special situation that brings about a piano technology program.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">   </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I don't know that we need very many of them.  I suppose 2 or 3 public school programs would be the most the country could support, and the division of public education into state systems means that inevitably state "X" will find most of the piano tech students are from out of state.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">When you find out what community colleges are paying instructors, you hit another problem.  One reason they like the standard syllabus approach is that it enables them to pay teachers one course at a time at very low rates.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">At WITCC, Doug Neal was paid to be a full time mentor to his students, and that is what made the program work.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I have wondered if it might be possible to create a summer program for piano majors.  It would be a heavy course load for a music student to add to a degree that is already heavy with course requirements, but it would offer a music major a good way to earn a living upon graduation, and might gain a new generation of bright, musically literate technicians into our profession.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Wimblees@aol.com href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=ed440@mindspring.com href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">ed440@mindspring.com</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 11/6/2004 10:50:26 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] teaching piano tuning</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/5/04 6:58:53 PM Central Standard Time, ed440@mindspring.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I was told that the North Carolina program was shut down partly due to political pressures on community colleges and tech schools to use state money to train employees for industry, not for private practice.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I wonder if this policy might change, now that North Carolina, and other states, is loosing so many manufacturing jobs, and would probably welcome having CC's teach service sector professions, like piano tuning. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim</DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>