[CAUT] A Project that might Work

[Chris Solliday]

Ed, 
This seems like an excellent idea to me, (whichever persona may be speaking). I suggest you run it by Eric since he is the Chair, but there is probably no reason this couldn't be added to the committee's charges for this year if he thinks there is time and interest in addition what is already charged. I will forward this post to cautcom for their discussion just in case some have stopped reading lately.
Chris Solliday
CAUTcom Board Liason 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Sutton 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:26 PM
  Subject: [CAUT] A Project that might Work


  Dear CAUT List Folks-

  Over the past year the Journal has used gracious contributions of the CAUT Committee to expand our technical coverage.
  In particular, Fred Sturm has given us the use of his posts (edited by him, and a then little more by us) to show some methods of efficient institutional maintenance. Kent Swafford is currently compiling some earlier posts about sostenuto regulation (real tech posts about real regulation problems!), which we will soon publish. It would be wonderful if the Journal were to receive similar contributions on technical topics for an extended period.

  A general range of topics could be: Institutional piano maintenance, Tuning, voicing, regulating the high performance piano.

  I am suggesting the most productive effort would be focused on the practical daily work of the college technician. Other topics might eventually be covered under a different sponsor.

  Articles should mostly be about generally accepted technical practice which can be replicated and tested, and any unusual opinions should clearly be identified as such.

  The CAUT Committee would have  authority to review/plan/make topic assignments  for the project.

  The CAUT Committee and Journal editors will create a "template" for the articles, which should facilitate production.

  The Journal editors will contribute editing, spelling and photo shop skills to the project.

  If we can agree on this model, or some modification of it, and get approval from the CAUT Committee, we can proceed to the next levels of development, such as listing possible topics, discussing how to extract the material, assigning writers, etc.

  I would like to hear responses to this idea.

  [Please don't use clever names and cute phrases. I can't understand them.]

  Thank you!

  Ed Sutton
  writing now as editor of PTJournal

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