[CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors

[Barbara Richmond]

Hi Jim,

When I was on staff at Illinois Wesleyan, the Vice-president for financial affairs was very happy to be able to use the School of Music's Steinway inventory as collateral on a loan for the university.

I thought the difficulty of tuning the 1098s had been removed.  What year did they start doing that?

The school I graduated from had Steinways and Yamahas.  All Steinway on stage, but mixed in faculty studios and piano major practice rooms.  A lot of the students prefered the Yamahas which were in better shape than the Steinways.


Barbara Richmond, RPT


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Busby 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 11:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors


  Chris,

   

  Our head piano faculty frequently says "It's a Steinway world", for the same reason you stated (95% of concert halls). However, when left to pick their own practice room pianos many of the students choose the Kawais. 

   

  Oberlin has 200 plus Steinways and they claim that because of the "rebuildability" (is that a word?) of Steinways over other pianos in general, and because of the continually appreciating value of Steinways that they actually are money ahead by being an "All S&S school". Of course most of this is salesman hyperbole, but your 95% point is the clincher for Steinway. It is rare that any major performers even ask to try out our Yamaha CF. They want the Steinways. 

   

  Jim Busby

   


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  From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Solliday
  Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:25 PM
  To: College and University Technicians
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pianos for piano performance majors

   

   Hey Jim, Since over 95% of all concerts are performed on Steinways, oh maybe it's a little less, but certainly the great majority and the "great majority" (new scientific data term) of performing artists prefer Steinways, it only makes sense to practice on them as much as possible. Does it help to broaden one's horizons by working and concertizing on different instruments? Sure, but then there's reality, and that would be Steinways. Any arguments?? this should be fun.

  Chris Solliday

     
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