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BOSTON — A music school's requirement that graduates must sight-read music discriminated against the blind, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has ruled. Ruling at music school helps blind quirements and therefore would not graduate. Most were discouraged and did not apply, the Boston Globe reported today. The Associated Press Thomas J. Burns, regional director of the New England division of the Office of Civil Rights, said qualified blind students should not be held back because of their inability to perform a single test. told she would not graduate. Her mother filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights. The ruling against the school came last month. A curriculum committee at Berklee had been looking at the core requirements and decided to change the sight-reading requirement irrespective of the discrimination case. Bethune said. The school warned blind applicants that they would never fulfill core re- "I think it's a very important right that's been clarified," he said. "The case was unique and certainly the first we've come across." "The problem we had was that at the time, we felt the standard could not be modified," he said. "But we have no bone to pick with blind students." Berklee changed its curriculum and graduation requirements before the ruling to "de-emphasize sigh-reading," said Lawrence Bethune, dean of the 2,900 students at the school. "This is certainly noteworthy," said Kenneth Jerrigan, executive director of the National Federation of the Blind. "This case recognizes that we really are dealing with a civil rights matter, and that's a refreshing change." The case began two years ago when a visually impaired woman decided to apply to Berklee and was The Associated Press He's tickling and tuning the old ivories Blind since birth, Smith began tuning pianos in 1948. He learned his trade at the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville. "I found out I was going to have to make a living some way or another," Smith said. "They taught you how to make brooms, and they taught you chair caning. I didn't think I could do either one of them." NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gerald Smith has never seen a piano, though he has made his living seated at one for 41 years, running his fingers over the strings as well as the keys. Blind man, 62, tunes pianos for a living Although he played alto horn in the school band, Smith found piano tuning more to his liking. "In the band, you have to tune up, and I found out I could do that pretty well," said Smith, a native of Jamestown, Ala. "I had a pretty good ear." Smith's good ear and sensitive fingers have tuned keyboards for the likes of Floyd Cramer, Ronnie Milsap, Johnny Cash and the thousands of Symphony, for the two dealers for whom he has worked Smith, 62, is semi-retired, spending three days a week sharpening the sounds from uprights and grandits. It helps him about an hour to tune a piano. He makes his way easily among the instruments in a showroom, identifying the make and model with a touch of his hand. "When you tune a piano, it's just like being acquainted with someone. The more you're around them, the better you know them." he said: Four decades in the tuning business has taught Smith that each piano has a story behind it as well. He can tell a lot about the people who play them even without meeting them. "If you see dust on the keys up on this end and down on the lower end, you know they haven't touched those keys in years, which indicates they play little, simple songs," he said. fingers over the keys, I can tell whether it's been tuned very often," he said. "I can tell if it needs rebuilding or overhauling by the way the mechanical part feels." Smith said his blindness has never caused disharmony with a customer. "I've never had anybody tell me, 'Well, you're blind. I don't think you can see to the job." he said. WANTED: "But you'd be surprised how stupid people are. They know my blind eye, and I'm down and start tuning the piano, and ask me if I need the light turned on." He says he just tells them no and goes on working — touching, listening, running his hands along the 88 familiar keys. Kansan Columnists Call 864-4810, ask for Stan "It's just like an old friend," he said. SEE THE CLASSIFIEDS Blomgren B&J Johnson LIQUORS Welcomes Back the Students! 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