This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment All the comments I've seen have been very interesting perspectives! = I've been looking for actual sources for the number of pianos currently = produced and from 100 years ago, as well as sources of estimates for how = many people are studying piano now versus 100 years ago. The number may = very well be more today than a century ago. I checked the U.S. Census = website and it listed the U.S. population in 1900 to be 76 million = people, and in 1999 to be 272 million. I'd be interested to know what = percentage of the population then and now study or have studied piano. = If anyone knows of any sources of such numbers, I'd very much like to = know.=20 Just for the record, I'm not trying to be Chicken Little and propose = alarm. My business, like those others who commented, is doing just = fine. I know many piano teachers who are very busy indeed. Still, I = notice that many of my customers are parents of children taking lessons, = and I think many feel the need to have their children take lessons = because that is the thing you're supposed to do. Perhaps future = generations of parents will continue to feel this way, or perhaps the = convention wisdom, or 'just because that's what you're supposed to do' = will be questioned and things may change. I don't venture to guess or = suggest what will happen. Thanks, Colin McCullough please visit the McCullough Tuning Tutorial, a free online resource for = learning how a piano is tuned. www.Blackstone.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ad/1d/a1/3f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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