This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Setting downbearing on different types of boards (old and new, varying = degrees of crown), theory and methods, would be of interest to me. David Love ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org ; Board@ptg.org=20 Cc: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: July 24, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Is there any interest? was Re: no comp.=20 Del and I have been discussing what subjects could be offered at the = convention that would attract more technicians, especially the older, = more experinced ones who have not been coming to the conventions = recently, because there just aren't enough interesting topics offered.=20 The challenge is to come up with topics that might be of interest, and = an instructor who could present that topic, (or offer to teach it = yourself).=20 For the Board, could consideration be given to offer instructors = additional compensation to come up with more advanced topics?=20 Below is the Del's latest comments on the subject. These ideas, = hopefully, will be taken into advicement by the Institute Committee.=20 Wim=20 In a message dated 7/24/02 12:53:31 PM Central Daylight Time, = pianobuilders@olynet.com writes:=20 This is where I would like to see some ideas come out. What = subjects, courses, ideas would attract those who feel the convention = isn't offering enough? Would there be enough of these kinds of classes = to fill out a schedule, or are there going to be only a few, like your = environmental class, that hopefully would attract some of the = technicians that no longer attend? The second problem with this is, if = you have some new classes next year, what will have to be offered the = following year, and the next? Is there ever going to be enough new = material to have those technicians you're talking about, coming back = year after year?=20 Well, I don't know what could be offered. I don't know=20 what other people are interested in. What they are doing in their = 'spare' time.=20 What excites them. What is driving them on. We'll have to search a = bit.=20 As to what to do the year after...let's worry about=20 that next year. Each year will present troubles enough of its own.=20 The next question is, who is going to teach=20 those classes? I know you spend a lot of time preparing new = classes, like the=20 class I just mentioned. But who else is willing to take the time, = and present=20 it, with little or no compensation? Are we gong to run into the = same problem?=20 Are the advanced technicians who have given of their time and = talent for all=20 these many years, and felt "taken advantage of," be willing to = step up to the=20 plate, and do it again?=20 And that, of course, brings=20 us back to where this all started. Yes, eventually we are going to = run into the=20 same problem. With the current policies it will probably be = impossible. But=20 those policies must ultimately change--it is only a matter of time.=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/39/16/3f/23/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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