Let's cut to the chase

[rwest1@neb.rr.com]

Wim and All,

Your statement below gets to the heart of the matter/problem.  I don’t
think administrators have any problem understanding how they need to spend
money on maintaining some aspect of their university be it pianos,
building, grounds, physical plant, etc.  Ideas to spend money are legion. 
The problem is to find ways to raise money.  We need to do our homework and
provide the information for administrators to justify spending money on
pianos, but we need to also help in the money raising department and that’s
where Fred’s email about universal health care comes in.  If an
administrator can have help to fund a piano technician position via
creative budgeting, (funding health care, foundation support, private piano
purchases, etc.) then the position is more likely to be successful.

Perhaps what we need to focus on is finding those caut positions that have
worked and showcase those to administrators.  Also, if we could find
schools who have made a commitment to good piano service and showcase those
programs it might help to convince other schools.  This could be at the
center of any presentation.  If we focus only on the spending side, we
aren’t going to get far.  An adminstrator would love to provide a set of
great pianos with a great technician to take care of them.  The fact is
there are universities that do that.  We need to know about them, show how
it can actually be done, and highlight happy administrators who take pride
in the pianos they have and the service they buy.  This is far better than
beating the “bean counters” (I hate that term) over the head with what we
perceive as their incompetence.

Richard West

Wim Blees said:

We need to show how spending $50,000 a year to take care of a million
dollars or more in inventory is going to save them money in the long run.
If we can come up with a way to do that, perhaps it will raise the income
level at all schools.


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