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Responsibilities
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Piano
and other Keyboards: Concert preparation, tuning, maintaining, and rebuilding the department's eighty five pianos, three pipe organs, and two harpsichords. |
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Winds,
strings, and percussion: Minor repairs,
cleaning and maintaining of the department's brass, woodwind, percussion
and string instruments. Managing instrument inventory and loans.
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| Send E-mail with any questions regarding our instruments to: scott.thile@murraystate.edu. | |||
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Scott Thile Monday - Thursday 2:00 to 4:00 Please call 270-809- 4396 for an appointment, or email me: scott.thile@murraystate.edu I am here many other times than those posted, but am also around the department servicing pianos much of the time. Please stop buy to check if I'm in, or you can call or E-mail me for an appointment. |
Student
hours for loans and returns only. Staffed by Matthew Butterfield. Call ahead (4396). Hours vary.
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We are in the shop at many other times then these posted hours, and I am available by appointment. Our work often takes us away from the shop, so appointments are highly recommended, especially for repairs. Please call or email me if you would like to set an appointment.
| Contact information:
Scott E. Thile Piano-Instrument Technician MSU, Department of Music |
phone:
270-809-4396 fax: 270-809-3965 (attention Scott Thile) shop & office: FA 2011 (Old Fine Arts Building) E-mail: scott.thile@murraystate.edu |
| Snail mail address: Scott Thile, Department of Music, 504 Fine Arts Building, Murray, KY 42071 | |
Background, Training and Affiliations
- Registered member of the "Piano Technicians Guild" (PTG) since 1978. President of the San Diego chapter (1983 - 1985). Occasional speaker at PTG conventions and seminars.
- Serve on the PTG's College and University Technicians (CAUT) committee (1996 - 2003).
- CAUT - Webmaster for "The CAUT Page".
- Former member of the National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians (NAPBIRT).
- Concert Piano Technician for Idyllwild Arts (formerly ISOMATA) Idyllwild, CA. 1986-1995
- Graduate, Empire School of Piano Technology 1979.
- Apprenticeships under several master technicians in Southern California 1978-1981.
- Other Experience and Interests
- Double bass player - Grumpy Old Men (2004 to present). Todd Hill Quartet (occasional sub, 2006 to present). Former credits include recording and touring with Chris Thile, mandolinist and recording artist. Recording and touring with the award-winning new acoustic music group Nickel Creek (1988 - 2000), also on Sugar Hill Records. Former bassist for the La Jolla Civic Orchestra. Bassist for Peter Sprague's Dance of the Universe Orchestra (1976 -1978).
- Recording engineer. Credits include Chris Thile's, "Leading Off".
- Amateur (Ham) Radio. Operating under call sign K4SET (not currently active) .
- 2003 to 2007: Director, RadioMinistries, an NPO providing communications solutions for Christian missions.
- Pipe making (tobacco pipes).
- Pipedia.org (SYSOP for Pipedia, a wiki for tobacco pipes and all things related)
Research: "Restoring Key Coloration to Period Music Through Historical Tuning in Unequal Temperaments"
Essays:
Traditional
Acoustic Versus Digital Pianos; Which one is right for you?
Preparing the Concert Piano "The unseen
artist".
Do you have a relationship with God? When friends would ask me this question I used to cringe. Are you cringing? I don't mean to make you cringe.... I didn't face this question until 1988 when I realized that I really did want to know more about God if he existed. I did some reading and studying which convinced me that God does exist and people can have a real relationship with Him. This has had a very profound influence on my life and has completely changed my thinking. I'm interested in your thoughts on this. Where are you on the "cringe-o-meter"? Email me if you like. I would love to talk more with you about this. scott.thile@murraystate.edu.
Two of
the bible passages I try to live and work by:
Colossians 3:23 and 24 Whatever you do, work at it with
all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,
since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a
reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 and 12 And to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you; so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.
Through God's grace I live up to these scriptures sometimes. I try to apply myself to the work that is before me. God and Family, my work at Murray State University, music making with my friends, and my love for pipe making.
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