---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 6/12/03 4:39:37 PM Central Daylight Time, fssturm@unm.edu writes: > Administrators are willing to > pay what it takes to hire the football coach who will win them the required > number of games. They are willing to pay for the number of groundskeepers > it takes to keep the flowers and grass looking pretty. They'll buy the > computers and pay for the LANL and support staff to stay at the cutting > edge of technology. None of those expenditures saves them money. They do it > because it is necessary to achieve a level of excellence A winning football coach brings in millions to the university, from more attendance at the games, to bowl games, to scholarship money given by alumni who want to support a winning team. A coach might be great with the players, but if he doesn't win the right number of games, he's gone. Groundskeepers earn their keep by making the campus look attractive. That's a visual thing that everyone who comes on campus sees. Again, it attracts alumni who donate to the university. But if the lawns aren't perfect, or if there is too much trash laying around, some alumni will not only complain, but will threaten to withhold donation until the place is cleaned up. And since everyone uses computers these days, most of which are donated by the computer companies, or at least subsidized by them, they are a good investments again, because alumni, who give money, remember how good the computers were. But a piano stuck in a practice room is only going to be noticed by a few music students, most of whom will earn very little money, and thus will not contribute much to the university. Even the piano on the stage in the concert hall only gets heard by a handful of people, compared to the number of people who attend a football game. The overall impact, the visual effect, much less how it sounds, not to mention how it plays, just isn't there. Virtually no one will know the difference if it isn't voiced or regulated. So the ONLY impact a piano tuner has on the instrument is on the longevity of the investment. Most technicians can only do so much to impress the faculty. Even with outstanding facilities, and an excellent technician keeping the pianos in tune, the money needs to be justified. Keeping the pianos sounding and playing great isn't going to be enough if the university decides it doesn't want to spend the money to keep their investment in top working condition, unless it can be shown that without the technician, their investment will need to be replaced in 20 years, instead of 40. I agree that getting testimonials will help. I want to add my name to the list. Can you tell me how to do that again, please. But we need to do more than that. We need to think of other means to impress administrators. You asked for suggestions. Why are you so reluctant to accept mine? Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/e2/5a/3c/f6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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