This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I'm tuning for the annual Stanford Jazz Workshop this summer and= it is really exciting to see these young kids playing jazz and= sounding pretty good...10 year olds and up... David Ilvedson Original message From: Tom Servinsky To: Pianotech Received: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:21:44 -0400 Subject: Re: the future of piano study I can't speak for our neck of the woods ( S. Florida). All of our= piano teachers are carrying full loads plus huge waiting lists= for any future openings. Piano lessons are going strong and= parents are most enthusiastic of the benefits pianos lessons= provide. In addition I'm seeing a lot of the high school= students going to the symphony concerts as dates instead of the= parting down the block. Tom Servinsky ----- Original Message ----- From: Blackstone Piano To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: the future of piano study I'm curious to know what other piano tuners think about the= future of piano study. I can only guess that the number of= children who studied piano 100 years ago versus today is= staggering. I've seen some figures on the decline of piano= sales as each decade passes, and that is a telling indicator. I'm not a cynic by nature, and I am not overly concerned about= the end of our profession coming too soon. Still, I do think= about it and wonder if other piano tuners are concerned. Will= the number of piano students continue to decline, or slow to a= steady number of new students each year? Is it possible in this= day of sports, video games, TV, the Internet, and a million= other activities, to reverse this trend? What would it take to= make this happen? Should/what should we as piano tuners be= doing more to try and reverse this trend? I came across an= interesting speech from Brian Chung, the senior vice president= and general manager of Kawai America Corporation:= http://www.pianonet.com/articles/artofwar.htm I'm just curious what other people think about this. Thanks, Colin McCullough please visit the McCullough Tuning Tutorial, a free online= resource for learning how a piano is tuned. www.blackstonepiano.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/8a/31/fc/be/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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