This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Alan, You also have to have some way to verify condition of pianos= before and after damage is found...how do you do that? Wouldn't= the trucking (private company?...employees of the University?)= just say that was the way it was when they found it? Someone= (you or the intern!) would have to be taking digital photos of= pianos before moves... In the private world at hotels, for instance, the same problem= exists. No one takes responsibility for banging the grand into= the doorway...the tuner discovers the damage and most of the= time nothing is done because of cost of repairs and the pianos,= after some time, begin to acquire that hotel piano patina. David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Alan McCoy <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu> To: 'College and University Technicians' <caut@ptg.org> Received: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 09:28:50 -0700 Subject: RE: Piano Tech Aide Checklist.doc Yep. Actually I do care for the simple reason that cared for= things tend to be better cared for. Irony and paradox! One of the first things I noticed here at the university after= 20+ years of private work was that there are almost no real= consequences for mistakes. The incident was guys from trucking= who moved some pianos chipped off a good-sized chunk of veneer= from a piano. In the private world they, or their insurance,= would have had to pay to get it fixed. I have had to do that= when I have made mistakes (like screwing up someone's hardwood= floor, and scratching a piano case!). At the university, no= consequence. Other than me noticing and making a mental note= that I will have to be more supervisory in the future. The other= thought about this is that one of the things that makes a good= employee is integrity. The movers should have reported the= incident and the repair come out of their budget instead of= ours. So I try to have integrity myself and muster the energy to= confront students, TAs, faculty, staff when I see people not= caring for our pianos (and other things). Gotta start somewhere.= Alan From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On= Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:54 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: Piano Tech Aide Checklist.doc Alan I don't have any experience with work study students doing any= real piano work All mine does is move the pianos off and on= stage. (I did have him drill the screw holes in a pin block, and= he helped me take the plate in and out of the piano.) But the thing that I have question about is the case polishing= and touch up. Don't tell me you actually care about the case of= the pianos in a practice room? Wim In a message dated 3/31/2004 3:39:33 PM Central Standard Time,= amccoy@mail.ewu.edu writes: Hey folks, I have a student worker bee to help me. I am creating a checklist= of things this music student (a composition major, clarinetist) might do to= assist me (attached). This is not a training position, i.e. I am not= training him to become a technician. I am offering him a job as a work study= position. I'd like some feedback from anyone out there who has some= experience in this regard. Thanks very much for your thoughts. Alan ____________________________________________ Alan McCoy, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/d8/f7/fc/44/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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