KAM writes:
<<That kind of limits me to contribute anything of worthiness to a "genuine"
University technician.
>>
Oh c'mon Keith, don't sell yourself short; you know a lot of what happens
to pianos at schools, we can, I am sure, cobble together somethings of
interest.
I began at the Blair School before we became Vanderbilt's dept of Music,
and at the time, I tuned everything. Over the years, as my outside business
grew, and my physical "hinges and pulleys" began to wear out, I enlisted
other tuners to do the bulk of the tuning, and now, I am only doing the
technical work and performance tunings. I still see the problems, which I
hope to have time to write about in the future.
I suppose that we may first off delineate our fields of concern into three
major areas, all interrelated, of course, but most efficiently addressed as
separate topics. I would suggest that we recognize as separate
#1) the technical world that we deal with, such as "how long should hammers
last"'
2) Budget manipulations to best serve #1
3) faculty relations so that #1 and #2 go together as smoothly as possible.
The following is NOT FOR PUBLICATION !! It is just for us to discuss
amongst ourselves. OK?
I am presently beginning to wonder about the hearing of certain persons
that are involved in making decisions at our school. When more and more
audience, (myself included), are hearing the concert piano as harsh, and a
faculty member that has a say-so is saying "leave the voicing where it is", I
would naturally think it is a musical judgement. However, that same faculty
member is beginning to break more and more strings, and beginning to complain
that he cannot hear other instruments on the stage when he is
playing....................Anybody out there got some tactful way of getting a
hearing test suggested?
Regards,
Ed Foote
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