[CAUT] CAUT Certification: How many with a shop at a University or College do Bellywork?

[William Monroe]

I feel I must put a couple words in here, so that Mr. Sloane's query isn't
ignored out of hand.

This question has come up in my chapter as well.  We worry a bit about the
CAUT cert. being divisive.  There is a feeling that it COULD serve to
further separate "field" technicians from their CAUT brethren.  That
division is certainly already there in greater and lesser degrees, depending
upon the technicians, and I worry that this may just drive another small
wedge between these two groups of techs.  I understand that is not the
intention, but many times, the impact of something is far greater, or
different, than it's intent.

William R. Monroe


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Sloane, Benjamin (sloaneba) <
sloaneba at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:

>       Greetings, colleagues,
>
>    I have a question. How many piano techs. on the CAUT list are doing
> bellywork in the shop at their school, besides pinblocks and recapping
> bridges? Are there statistics for this? Should we do a survey?
>
>    If we are just contracting off what I believe is part of the second year
> of training at the North Bennet Street School, is it really fair to promote
> a certification that potentially could make those who do bellywork look
> inferior to us? Is that in the best interests of all PTG members? Assuming
> bellywork is not part of the cirriculum that is planned.
>
>    Furthermore, I have been around the block enough for those who have
> rebuilt enough actions to know, Stanwood provides no panacea. Sometimes an
> action job just does not turn out well as we expected. For University techs,
> usually we can find a place for the piano. For people in the field, the
> pressure is much greater, for in many cases, we have no alternative but to
> return it to the client as it turned out.
>
>    I am concerned that we are going to make those not doing salaried work
> for a University and College look bad with the CAUT certification. Is this a
> valid concern?
>
>     Respectfully,
>
>                Ben
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