CSPT (Chicago School for Piano Technology)!? NBSS (North Bennett Street School)! Yup, it's difficult. You can find our entire curriculum out on our website, Tom. It's taken years to develop, and we're not done, ever.? While you're there, take a look at the graduates page, see what they're doing after one year of training. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 5:24 pm Subject: Teaching Tuning I have a new-found respect for those of you who teach others to tune. I took on a student, albeit a not-too-serious one, this summer. I have taught piano for nearly 20 years, I used to teach college level music theory; I thought I could be a good tuner-teacher, too. Not so. Knowing what you're doing doesn't necessarily make you able to teach that to others. My theory, as to why this was so difficult for me, is that I basically taught myself how to do all this stuff. Sure, I had tutoring sessions with various RPTs here in my area, but for the most part, I read, I watched others critically, I attended all the PTG meetings and Institutes I could, and I bought old junker pianos and regulated, reconditioned, and partially rebuilt them. I didn't really do it all by myself, but there was no curriculum I followed, nor any logical course of action other than trying to absorb everything that came my way. So when it came time to pass this knowledge down, I had no idea how to form basic lesson plans that progressed from one step to another, or create aural tuning exercizes to help this youngster learn how to tune. Perhaps a more serious student might have made me feel a little better about the job I did, but I don't blame the student. I think I'm just no good at it. I don't foresee taking on any other students in the future. No response necessary from anyone on this post. Just wanted to express my gratitude to those who helped me get a start, and my admiration for those of you who have the talent to teach others. Tom Sivak Chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080916/eb572c72/attachment.html
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