dorms -- Guidelines???

[Jeff Tanner]

Richard,
Nice job on this.  It occurs to me that something like this could be a
useful addition to our "Guidelines..." to help determine the number of
manhours of tech time required to "ideally" maintain an inventory of pianos
in an institution.  By converting the "cost" figures you have to hourly
figures, adding the total number of hours per year needed for the sum of
all instruments, and dividing that by the number of hours a full-time tech
can work per year, it would provide another type of estimate for the number
of piano techs an institution ideally needs.  Or it could also be an
indicator of how far behind the ideal we currently are in terms of hours.

Input the figures in a spreadsheet application which could also factor in
variables for age, condition, type, climate control, hours of use, etc...

You come up with actual hours required for upkeep of each instrument in
inventory, rather than based on a suggested number of pianos per tech.
Something a little more tangible for administrators to understand.

Whaddya think?
Jeff



>Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:45:48 -0600
>From: Richard West <rwest1@unl.edu>
>Subject: dorms
>
>
>Don and All,
>
>The third time has to be the proverbial charm.  Thanks for your patience
>and, once again, I'll ask for your thoughts on the attachment (if it is
>readable).
>
>Richard West
>

Jeff Tanner, Piano Technician
School of Music
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803)-777-4392 (phone)