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From: midnig~acline.co.uk (David Michelsen)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 96 07:27:03 BST
Subject: Education

Hi all,
Pat Missin mentioned the teacher acredetation scheam that we have
in the UK. This was started by Norman Ives. A meeting was held with Steve
Jennings, Colin Mort (reposenting the NHL) myself and Norman. It came about
because we discovered that there were folk teaching who did not know what
notes were available on the 10 hole diatonic. I was asked to devise a
simple test that would alow teachers to show that they DO know the layout -
some first stages position theory - and what & where the bends are. If you
pass this it gives you acredation to teach at primary level. Other levels
will be decided by the accredited teachers at a meeting that is still yet
to happen.
I do feel that it is more important for a student to have
confidance in a teacher than it is to grade a student. That said most of my
students would be able to answer those questions that we put to the
teachers. they are not tough just simple stuff about the layout of the
instrument.

There is no doubt at all that about 45% of the students that I
teach would respond well to and benifit from some sort of gradeing system.
The problem with this would be that the usal grade exams for flute for
example would be beyond most student harp players. I think that most blues
harp players would be struggerling at grade 3. I have taught the grades
(theory) to non harp players. There is very little incentive to make the
materal for grade exams for Blues Harp players. for the chromatic you could
hijack the grade set from a different instrument and taylor it a bit but
just playing the blues harp in tune seems to be a thing that many harp
players have trouble with, it's a bit like the fiddle in that respect. The
grades here are done by the Assocated board of the royal schools of music,
who viwe the harmonica family as being between folk instruments and toys
and they don't do stuff for either catigory.
In princable I see nothing wrong with the concept of grades. It
works well for many other instruments. If I am looking for a reading paino
player and they have passed grade 8 then I know that they will be
acomplished readers.
Doug also mentions the time one would save when students changed
teachers, this is true. I spend the first session finding out where a
student is and some sort of grading would eliminate much of this. Sadly I
fear that most harp players would not be able to acomplish the theory side
of the grades and so establishing them for the blues harp would not help -
David

Dr Midnight AKA David Michelsen, 6a Plesant Row, Woodford, N'hants,NN14
4HP, England. Phone or Fax 01832 735860