[CAUT] harpsichord seminars

[Paul T Williams]

This is good news, Eric,

I'll be able to go to national this year and will definately get in on 
Robert's class.  He is an outstanding technician, teacher, and friend. All 
who take his class will be all the better for it!  Of course, a 3 day 
hands on class would really be neat!

Thanks for the heads up!

Paul




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Jeff,
From a business standpoint it sounds like it would be a good thing to 
learn! You could charge just 3x your normal rate and get all their 
business.
 
CAUT has offered a number of classes at the National dealing with 
harpsichords over the last few years but I’m sure learning would be much 
more comprehensive and permanent if done in a hands-on seminar format and 
we will be offering one as soon as possible. At the Institute this year in 
Grand Rapids, Robert Murphy will be teaching a class on harpsichord and 
fortepiano service. As Fred pointed out, the topic of servicing historic 
instruments is definitely in the plans as part of a curriculum for a CAUT 
certification. For the purposes of general operational instruction on the 
topic, I don’t think we really need to go far afield to find a person to 
teach… Perhaps Robert Murphy at Oberlin would be a prime candidate with 
assistance from Fred Sturm and/or myself. I know Fred has built a few 
instruments and I’ve been building and messing around with them (in my 
spare time, of course) since 1979 when I built a Hubbard kit. I’m 
currently trying to finish a French Double (instrument #8) so the topic is 
never far from my mind.
 
I think the goal of such a seminar should be for the student to be able to 
perform some of the more common maintenance operations such as winding a 
new string loop ( knowing which kind of wire to use, of course), replacing 
a plectra and voicing it to match its neighbors, regulating and replacing 
damper felt, maintaining and regulating the registers, learning about 
staggering the plucking between registers, removing, easing and leveling 
keyboards, regulating the buff-stop, etc…Throw in a little bit about the 
history, development and different types of instruments and I’m sure we 
could more than fill a 3 day weekend.
 
BTW Fred, I have that cartoon too…on my office wall.
 
Eric
 
Eric Wolfley, RPT
Director of Piano Services
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff 
Tanner
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:40 PM
To: Ed Sutton; College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] harpsichord seminars
 
Interesting!  From what I've seen, they already make 5x what piano tuners 
make!
JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ed Sutton 
To: College and University Technicians 
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] harpsichord seminars
 
HTG? 
They're on strike for higher wages!
Ed S.  ;-)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jeff Tanner 
To: College and University Technicians 
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] harpsichord seminars
 
Is there not a harpsichord/fortepiano organization similar to the PTG?
Jeff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Fred Sturm 
To: College and University Technicians 
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] harpsichord seminars
 
Hendrik Broeckman of Hubbard used to go various places to do three or so 
day workshops with kit builders. You might contact Hubbard and see if they 
still do that. 
I don't know of anything else of that sort (ie, a workshop or seminar). 
Bringing someone to work on the instrument, and hanging out, watching, 
getting some instruction is probably the best option. Or maybe going to 
where someone is doing some work. Kathy Perl of the San Francisco area or 
Anne Acker of Savannah are a couple I'd recommend (Kathy is mostly a 
performer, but does a fair amount of re-quilling and prepping work, and is 
willing to teach). Both can be found easily on the web. There are no doubt 
others as well.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu
 
 
 
On Sep 20, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Paul T Williams wrote:



Hi List, 

Does anyone know of a 1-2 week harpsichord workshop or seminar happening 
in the next year or so?  I fear my knowledge of harpsichords is limited 
and next year, we have an internationally known artist coming to UNL to 
perform on this and a forte-piano.  Fortunately the forte is in good shape 
(Thanks to Robert Murphy!!).  Our harpsichords are not in great shape and 
I need to learn quick! 

Thanks 

Paul 
 

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