[CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors

[Porritt, David]

Jim:
 
I tend to agree with you about the variety but the S'ways do hold up pretty well.  We are a keep-em-and-rebuild-em school.  We have bought 6 new pianos since 2000 but I really encourage rebuilding rather than trading.  Fortunately the head of piano is the daughter of a piano technician and she is firmly convinced that you get better instruments for less money that way.  I certainly agree with her.
 
Our grand pianos are 75% Steinway.  Steinway Hall is trying to get us to become an "All Steinway School".  I can't see any benefit in that myself - well, except for only having to keep parts for Steinways.  I certainly would not want to see a truckload of 1098s come in as I don't want to retire yet and I'm sure I would if we had 50 of those!  
 
dp
 
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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
dporritt at smu.edu

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org on behalf of Jim Busby
Sent: Thu 3/30/2006 1:39 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors



List,

 

I've noticed that several of you have practice rooms "locked" or reserved for piano performance majors. Many reserve Steinways for those rooms, but isn't a diversity of brands better? We currently have 6 of these rooms and have the following breakdown;

 

2 Steinway Ms

1 Yamaha C3

1 M&H A

1 Kawai GS-40 

1 Baldwin L

 

All these kept as optimal as possible. 

 

Any arguments for going all S&S? I'd especially like to hear from those of you who majored in piano performance.

 

Thanks.

 

Jim Busby BYU

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