Hi all, I'd like to urge everyone to join us this summer in Kansas City. The CAUT Committee once again has a full day of activities planned (Friday this year): Humidity Control retrofit as part of an HVAC rehabilitation. David Barr will share his experience from last summer, when Duquesne University did just that to their music building. Some practical, real-life details that (we dream) could apply to all of us some year. Keeping complex records on a computer, using a relational database. Don McKechnie and Alan McCoy will team teach based on their use of Filemaker and Access to keep track of inventory, tuning, maintenance, re-building, scheduling and the like. Curriculum - teaching classes about the piano to music students. Alan McCoy will present a more or less complete set of curriculum and materials he has developed over the past two years, drawing from a number of fellow cauts. This preliminary material is posted on the caut web page, and Alan will introduce it in detail, urge us all to make use of it and add to it, and will share some of his experience from teaching a course last summer. Open Forum will focus particularly on the development of a CAUT Credential. See the CAUT Newsletter (soon to appear in electronic form) for an article outlining our current thoughts along those lines. If you would like to invite a faculty member to attend the CAUT events, please do so: registration is free for this purpose (solely for attendance at caut events, for invited faculty). The Humidity Control session might be of particular interest. Please take advantage of this opportunity if you have a faculty member who might be interested. A wee bit of "self-promotion": I'll be teaching two classes on the harpsichord. The first will look briefly at the history of the modern harpsichord, and then will dig into structure and design. The second will look mostly at troubleshooting - dealing with typical problems - along with basic regulation and maintenance. I hope to see many of you there! Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico
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