[CAUT] A Project that might Work

[Willem Blees]

Ed. 

Last fall I gave a?chapter technical on the rep spring, which could easily be made into an article.?I would be willing to write the?article if?someone would edit it? and supply?pictures. Is this what you're looking for, and is anyone interested in helping with the project? 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
808-349-2943
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The Business of Piano Tuning
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com>
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 8:26 am
Subject: [CAUT] A Project that might Work



Dear CAUT List Folks-

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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I would like to hear responses to this idea.

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

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Thank you!

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Ed Sutton

writing now as editor of PTJournal

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