<HTML>In a message dated 12/18/00 12:03:24 PM Central Standard Time, drwoodwind@hotmail.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In piano tuning, you get one shot to make that puppy work for all types of music.  It is a static thing, once set, can't be changed by the performer during a performance. As an instrument repair guy as well, I get to see lots of repairs done to band and orchestra instruments that are.....well....creative.  </BLOCKQUOTE> I agree that there is a difference between tuning a piano and tuning a trumpet. The point I was trying to make, however, is that I think more emphasis should be placed on teaching repairs, especially in college. The only reason I learned to repair the band instruments when I was teaching band, was because my dad ran a music store, and he learned how to repair them, (and he in turn, taught me). But I think more emphasis should be placed on learning this stuff in college. Not so much that the player actually knows how to do a repair, although that would be good too, but at least so that the player can explain the problem to the repair man. The same goes for the piano player. It is a shame how many of them don't know a think of what's going on behind the fall board. Willem </HTML>