>>What's a personal life? >>Pianists have no regard for a tuners weekends. Gee, before I started working for IWU I worked no weekends or evenings--and I still had a full schedule--but those were the choices I made. When I started at IWU I sent a memo to faculty stating the *rules* which included one stating that only essential concert work is done on weekends. Essential mostly means touching up unisons. The way I get away with this is I have 2 weekly regularly scheduled times in the concert hall for tuning, voicing and regulating. The only exceptions to the rule are piano faculty recitals or if the weather has been playing games with the tuning. This system has worked well here at a small liberal arts school (only 160-180 students in the school of music). I miss the freedom of my *independent* days, but institutional work has certain niceties, too. One of the best things that ever happened to me was when piano work went from being my life to it just being my job. Barbara Richmond Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, Illinois berich@heartland.bradley.edu
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