future technicians

[Robin Blankenship]

BRAVO!!!!!

And, every time you do that (educate and share your enthusiasm) you are not 
only soliciting potential future techs, but you are also reinforcing that 
music is very important to our humanity.

BRAVO!!!
BRAVO!!!
BRAVO!!!

Robin Blankenship
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie at allthingspiano.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 12:37 AM
Subject: future technicians


> This afternoon, I wrote a letter to the first piano technician I ever
> watched tuning a piano.  That was back in the early '60s, and even as a
> pretty young kid, I thought it was the most wonderful thing ever.  He'll 
> be
> 80 this summer and is celebrating his 40th year in the PTG.  I don't 
> expect
> him to remember me, but he surely did change my life.
>
> So, when I work in a house with kids (or interested adults), I always take
> time to show them what's going on inside the piano and how things work, in
> general.  With case parts removed, I encourage them to play so they can 
> see
> it all in motion.  (I've heard that the little ones don't pound as much
> afterwards.)
>
> And this month, I've heard from two young tuning customers who have 
> decided
> they want to try their hands at being technicians.  They're both good
> pianists and budding composers, but I'm pretty sure neither of them had 
> ever
> considered being a technician until we spent time talking about it and
> poking around inside pianos together.  And you can bet they've heard a lot
> about the PTG and why they should join! <g>
>
> What goes around does come around..........
>
> Annie Grieshop
>
>
>