This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Tom and List I hear on the BBC that Yamaha are offering, as First Prize to any NON = professional pianist over 30 years old taking part in a South Bank piano = competition a =A310,000 Yamaha piano. They're doing their bit here = anyway. So is the BBC in their "Young Musician of the year" annual = event. I have more work than I can possibly handle since there are fewer = and fewer piano tuners coming into the field. Learning how to tune a = piano in UK is now more difficult there being no piano factories. = (Herrberger-Brooks piano action and key factory has also ceased trading = some while back along with Broadwoods, Knights, Rogers etc.) so the only = place I know of is with what used to be called the "Furniture College" = in Commercial Road, London. I dare say there are various piano workshops = or Ateliers who train new recruits. No, here it is not the lack of = pianists which is worrying, it's the lack of tuners. Regards from Sunny Sussex Michael G.(UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tom Servinsky=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:21 AM Subject: Re: the future of piano study I can't speak for our neck of the woods ( S. Florida). All of our = piano teachers are carrying full loads plus huge waiting lists for any = future openings. Piano lessons are going strong and parents are most = enthusiastic of the benefits pianos lessons provide. In addition I'm = seeing a lot of the high school students going to the symphony concerts = as dates instead of the parting down the block. Tom Servinsky ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Blackstone Piano=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: the future of piano study 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. =20 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 I'm just curious what other people think about this. Thanks, Colin McCullough please visit the McCullough Tuning Tutorial, a free online resource = for learning how a piano is tuned. www.blackstonepiano.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4b/83/ce/27/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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