the future of piano study

[pianolover 88]

Although there were about 5,000 makes of pianos being made and sold at the 
turn of the 20th century, today there is a mere 50. Still, there are more 
pianos being manufactured and sold today, by far, than at that time. I have 
more work than I can handle and I see no slowdown in sight. Besides, if this 
kind of business ever does die out, I have many other ceative ways to earn a 
good living. Bottom line: Love what you do and be damn good at it and you 
will always have work.

Terry Peterson

<br><br><br>----Original Message Follows----<br>From: &quot;Blackstone 
Piano&quot; &lt;blackstonepiano@att.net&gt;<br>Reply-To: Pianotech 
&lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;<br>To: &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;<br>Subject: the 
future of piano study<br>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:02:27 -0400<br><br>I'm 
curious to know what other piano tuners think about the future of piano 
study.  I can only guess that the number of children who studied piano 100 
years ago versus today is staggering.  I've seen some figures on the decline 
of piano sales as each decade passes, and that is a telling 
indicator.<br><br>I'm not a cynic by nature, and I am not overly concerned 
about the end of our profession coming too soon.  Still, I do think about it 
and wonder if other piano tuners are concerned.  Will the number of piano 
students continue to decline, or slow to a steady number of new students 
each year?  Is it possible in this day of sports, video games, TV, the 
Internet, and a million other activities, to reverse this trend?  What would 
it take to make this happen?  Should/what should we as piano tuners be doing 
more to try and reverse this trend?  I came across an interesting speech 
from Brian Chung, the senior vice president and general manager of Kawai 
America Corporation: 
http://www.pianonet.com/articles/artofwar.htm<br><br>I'm just curious what 
other people think about this.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Colin 
McCullough<br><br>please visit the McCullough Tuning Tutorial, a free online 
resource for learning how a piano is 
tuned.<br>www.blackstonepiano.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm<br><br>