Well, at the University of Houston they are. It's part of their degree plan. Piano majors HAVE to accompany a certain amount of hours for their degree. There's even a course taught by a piano prof. to do that!!!!!! Avery Todd On Jan 20, 2008 7:30 AM, pbmosley <mosley at classicnet.net> wrote: > I have gone past the keyboard vs. piano argument. I don't see kids > playing at a very high level, they are not accompanying in high school or > churches anymore. They are coming into college without having accompanied > and are not acquiring those skills. I was in a university with a board > covered with accompanying jobs for high schools and churches, they are not > teaching any students to accompany, and most new teachers now do not play > well enough to accompany. Bottom line is fewer people know how to use the > keys, it is going to go away as a common input device for music. Keyboards > are there own demise, they are cheap and disposable, and they will be > disposed with no real skills acquired. Karaoke here we come, in most > schools and churches we are already there. > What do people do with large machines they really don't know anything > about? > Phil > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080120/dd33966d/attachment.html
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