[CAUT] University Budgets and Payroll

[Jeff Tanner]

Hi Ed,
Bear in mind, that is precisely why we do CONTRACT work for universities. 
But for F/T salaried techs, that particular incentive is greatly watered 
down.
Jeff

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> Susan writes, inre Diane's acquisition of a school account:
>
> << You are laying up treasure every time you tune for them. Maybe you
> should think of it as a savings account, just without interest. >>
>
>    The gold mine in the school setting is the recommendations from the
> faculty to their students and the pianists in the community.  The 
> foundation is
> developing a personal relationship with the teachers, and the first thing
> you have to sell them is yourself.  If you do that successfully, you will
> reap benefits that can almost make the income from the school negligible, 
> ( I
> said "almost").
>    Teachers usually enjoy far more credibility than they deserve when it
> comes to instrument recommendations, but that is the way it is and we need 
> to
> be mindful of that. They wield inordinate power in the piano playing
> community.  Once they trust the tech, they will be more open to 
> suggestions that
> may challenge their deeply held, idiosyncratic beliefs.  (I have had 
> teachers
> tell students to clean their ivory with milk, that only left-handed tuners
> were really able to tune at concert level, that once a piano was tuned to
> 442 it would never hold pitch at 440, etc.)
>   Maybe we could start a new thread of the oddball things we have heard
> from piano teachers!
> Regards,
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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