[CAUT] caut Digest, Vol 1090, Issue 3

[Chris Solliday]

Right on Busby
CS
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Busby 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 5:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] caut Digest, Vol 1090, Issue 3


  Paul,

   

  With 105 instruments you really should have 3 "budgets"; 

    1.. A Maintenance budget (Tuning and such) 
    2.. A capital budget for a scheduled replacement program 
    3.. A repair/refinishing/refurbishing budget 
   

  In the real world that's hard to get. 

   

  I would question why it would need 28% of your budget for work on a 25 year old instrument, unless it had a major train wreck! I would call someone like Margaret Hood for a "second opinion". I don't know what your budget is but it sounds like either your budget is way too low, or the repair costs are enormous.

   

  Just my two bits. Good luck.

   

  Jim Busby BYU

   

   

   

   

   


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  From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams
  Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:35 PM
  To: caut at ptg.org
  Cc: caut at ptg.org; caut-bounces at ptg.org
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] caut Digest, Vol 1090, Issue 3

   


  Hi List, 

  Some of my greenish hue is starting to wear off on being a CAUT, but on budget matters with piano faculty, in particular, I shine brighter that the emerald city!!  We have 105 keyboard instruments here at the university, one of them being a Belt forte-piano about 25 years old.  The professor who plays it primarily is demanding a major rehabilitation to it which will require some outside help with my assisting this outside expert.  The estimated cost of bringing this "expert" in will take over 28% of my yearly budget.  The instrument is used in concert 6-8 times per year as compared to our 3 Steinway D's, 1 concert Baldwin and 3 Steinway B's which are used constantly. 

  Some of the other faculty are up in arms about using the piano budget and insist that this is a "special project" and should use "special funds" like grants and the like.  Of course I agree strongly both ways!  It is a university instrument, so it should use university funds.  On the other hand it is used so infrequently, that I can't see using a huge slice of my pie.  On the third hand, one of my responsibilities is to see to it that all instruments are happy. 

  Having such a limited budget as I do, if I had to replace a good quality grand, (not even concert level), I would be spending far more than one year's budget, leaving all other instruments on hold until next year whatever the need may be.INCLUDING the concert instruments. 
  So I ask for a bit of seasoned advise from you all.  How have you handled such delemmas? Thanks for your help. 

  Here I am, stuck in the middle with you..... 

  Paul T. Williams RPT 
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
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