Piano technology courses;

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Greetings,

     I am looking for some background help here, hoping for some ammo to deal
with a recalcitrant curriculum committee.
     Having recently proposed a basic piano technology course for the
students at Blair school, Vanderbilt, I was told that it was considered
unnecessary to the students education.
     To me, this means that the school is granting performance degrees to
students that cannot tell if their instruments are in, nor can they
understand what is meant by regulation, etc. ( I am sure all of you have had
to deal with customer ignorance?)
     The course was designed to give students enough knowledge to protect
themselves, and to communicate intelligently with their technicians, NOT
teaching them how to rebuild or tune beyond unisons.
    What I think will help me, is to know:

 how many  music schools in the country offer some form of instruction for
the piano students in the care and requirements of their instruments?

     If I can show the administration that I am not some atypical nut with a
unique agenda, I may have a second shot at this.  (It is important to me).
     Posting to me personally will probably be appreciated by those that are
not involved in academic quagmires of their own and would hate to see
bandwidth spent on this.
     Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Ed Foote

A440A@aol.com