piano purchase specs

[Fred Sturm]

Good point, Bob. In my case, the selection committee is under the control 
of the chair, who relies on me. There will be three of us for this first 
foray (myself included). When we get to grands, we may have to expand to 
five.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico

--On Monday, December 15, 2003 4:01 PM -0500 BobDavis88@aol.com wrote:

> Excellent ideas on piano purchasing, Fred,
>
> I'd add a specific call for an individual assessment by the technician to
> this. You may have this in mind already, but the spec is ambiguous, and
> could as written include three performers and no tech.
>
> The University for which I do part-time work, the University of the
> Pacific, recently bought ten Steinway grands and six Bostons. I was taken
> on the selection (both locally and to New York). Even though these are
> first-rate instruments, I did give several the boot for technical reaso,
> and they were glad they took me.
>
> Bob Davis