Klarinet Archive - Posting 000510.txt from 1999/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: mail order - local store policy repairs
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 14:41:33 -0400

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Richard Bush wrote:

> They are telling or showing their students that anyone can perform
> repairs. They are downgrading the real worth of repair technicians who
> spend all their time, energy and resources to do a job well. They are
> sending the wrong message to both students and parents in another way.
> They are telling them that music or involvement in music requires
> little commitment nor financial underpinning.

Come on, now, this seems a little overly dramatic. I think you got a
little emotionally carried away while writing this paragraph.

If a spring on a student's instrument is not engaged with its guide, and I
know how to put it back where it belongs, thereby allowing the student to
play in a rehearsal rather than sitting and watching, will my doing so
send all these sinister messages to student? I have to doubt it.

My experience has been that students are more likely to regard music
teaching in the way you suggested in a previous paragraph:

> The job is harrowing, overwhelming, and at times thankless.

Ed Lacy
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Dr. Edwin Lacy University of Evansville
Professor of Music 1800 Lincoln Avenue
Evansville, IN 47722
el2@-----.edu (812)479-2754
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