<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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: <A href="http://www.pianonet.com/articles/artofwar.htm">http://www.pianone= t.com/articles/artofwar.htm</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm just curious what other people = think about this.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Colin McCullough</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2>please visit the = McCullough Tuning Tutorial, a free online resource for learning how a piano is = tuned.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><A href=""><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>www.blackstonepiano.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm</FONT></A><= /DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>