Concurrently, her husband, Russ McIntyre, was employed as an electronics/software engineer for Philips. Philips owns the patent on the compact disc. Due to this Philips connection to the development of home electronics, Ms. McIntyre and her husband had access to compact disc recordings and early compact disc players at nominal fees as an employee benefit. (Incidentally, Mr. McIntyre is the developer of the Universal Remote Control for televisions and VCRs; he developed it with a colleague while at Philips in 1985-86.) Ms. McIntyre's first exposure to personal computers was playing "Pong" and "Pac Man" with her husband on their PC, which he built in their basement in 1979. Her exposure to computerized music software began in 1982 at the University of Tennessee where she observed students utilizing their computer lab and music software, designed by UT music theory professor, Dr. Don Pederson.
Ms. McIntyre first started using electronics to supplement teaching piano in 1983 when she shared compact disc recordings with early intermediate students of works they were studying, such as: Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena" and Schumann's "Album For the Young".
In 1986,she incorporated ear training software from Ohio University on her Apple II computer. Presently, she uses a Power MAC and MIDI controller with software for countless purposes during the last 20 minutes of a one hour private lesson. Other media sources include: VCR tapes, hundreds of compact disc recordings, and trusty scores and dusty books.
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She has given three workshops to music teachers
on the subject of music technology as a tool in the private teaching studio:
Tennessee State Music Teachers Association (1988?) and Indiana State Music Teachers
Association ("Multimedia Explorations" Fall 1989), and most recently to the
Indianapolis Piano Teachers Guild ("Forging Uncharted Musical Waters" February
2000).
Piano Lessons are one hour: 40 minutes at the grand piano/20 minutes with various media which compliment the lesson.