[CAUT] student assistants

[Kidwell, Ted W]

I get a lot of inquiries from students wanting to learn piano work. I do my best to discourage them because I know they are underestimating the time and effort required- just as I did. I had a student that I could not ward off that worked with me all of last spring semester and through the summer. I think it was a resounding success. He learned rudimentary tuning techniques and was quite useful in regulating the verticals. He helped with restringing and tedious jobs like repining, bushing keys etc. As a solo full-time tech I liked the company. Unfortunately, he had to move away.

The challenge is to balance the time needed for training with the amount of actual work that is gotten out of the student that is of value to the university.

Now I have a young woman who seems very earnest. We will see how it goes.

Ted Kidwell, RPT
California State University, Sacramento
Capistrano Hall, rm. 153
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6015
916.278.6737


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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:50:02 -0500
From: reggaepass at aol.com<mailto:reggaepass at aol.com>
Subject: [CAUT] student assistants
I would like to get a "show of hands" of all the CAUTs who utilize student assistants in some capacity or other.  Please indicate whether your CAUT position is full-time or part-time, and the kind of tasks you have been able to train your assistants for.

Many thanks,

Alan Eder

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