[CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors

[Robin Blankenship]

David,

Would not your school have some choice in which species of verticals it 
got?? Mine does. It has gotten several Boston UP-118S's over the past couple 
of years. I, too, held my breath about not being swamped with 1098's. But, 
when I beheld the new Bostons, I felt positively like..........like having a 
tea party!!!

Yep,
Robin Blankenship
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors


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

__________________________
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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