[CAUT] "Ten Things..." attached

[Alan McCoy]

Thank you for sharing this. Great work!

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: <reggaepass@aol.com>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:52:05 -0500
> To: <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] "Ten Things..." attached
> 
> Greetings Fellow Institutionalized Technicians,
> 
> Attached is a draft of the outline I put together for a workshop
> entitled, "Ten Things Every Musician Should Know About Pianos."  Please
> allow a few words of explanation before diving into it.
> 
> Some background first.  I am a regular guest speaker at piano
> practica(?), composition classes and the like on subjects such as how
> the piano action works, tuning systems, and non-traditional piano use.
> So it was a natural progression for the piano faculty to invite me to
> conduct a two and a half hour workshop as part of our January interim
> semester.  It started out being for pianists only, but there was so
> much interest from composers and other music students that we opened it
> up to everyone.  The goal was to make some essential points amidst a
> shotgun approach to multitudinous aspects of piano-abilia.  We started
> with some entertaining video footage, then launched into an action
> packed hour and a half of lecture/discussion following (but not limited
> to) the outline.  We finished up with time for attendees to try their
> hand at tuning a unison and retrieving a pencil from behind various
> grand piano fallboard designs.
> 
> And now for a few anticipatory remarks:
> 
> OK, ok.  I realize that:
> 
> 1) This contains far more than merely "Ten Things."; in fact, it's
> closer to EVERYTHING I would like musicians to know about pianos,
> packaged under ten headings to make it more palatable (or perhaps we
> should re-title it: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Pianos
> But Didn't Know to Ask");
> 2) Many of the notations in the outline are short-hand for things I
> expound upon extemporaneously;
> 3) It is challenging to get through this highly introductory "list" in
> 1 1/2 hrs.; I skim over much of the nomenclature and other items-and
> acknowledge doing so-in the interest of introducing the terminology and
> concepts so that when one of you attempts to communicate with one of
> these students, some of the lingo will at least ring a bell;
> 4) There may be things that some of you wildly disagree with: Let's
> hear about it-don't be bashful, now.  No offense intended;
> 5) This is a work in progress;
> 6) The original, unedited outline actually elicits laughs from
> uninitiated readers, assuming a rather broadminded outlook on politics,
> religion and sex (CalArts IS, after all, a private, left-coast art
> institute.)
> 
> But, hey.I was asked to share what I have, so here (albeit somewhat
> edited) it is!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan Eder, RPT
> California Institute of the Arts
> 
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