Lawrence Libin raises a good and valid point when he talks about piano players, students, being made aware of the pianos workings and maintenance. Whether or not college technicians would be the ones to teach courses it is, in my view, PTG whose responsibility it is to make piano teachers and, through them, the piano owning and playing public aware. There has been talk and some placid effort in that deirection for many, many years but nothing consistent or effective. Toronto, where I live, is a large city: we have over 3 million people, two major concert halls, one symphony orchestra, two professional choires, one opera house, two amateur sym. orchestras and a music conservatory with a good size music school. We've produced some well known pianists like Glen Gould and Oscar Peterson, to name just two. Now, you could have lived here for the past fifty years and owned and been playing a piano but unless you were a piano technician - you wouldn't once have heard of PTG. This is not a complaint, just a statement of fact. Making the public at large or the piano playing public or the music student body or the piano teaching profession aware of pianos, their worgkings and maintenance, does not seem to be a PTG priority. Ok, it is what it is. I make the bold and, i hope, wrong, assumption that the situation is the same in most large cities in North America. Ari Isaac. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091127/ff7692fb/attachment.htm>
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