[CAUT] CCM goes "All Steinway"

[David Ilvedson]

Your list has me drooling...wow!   Congratulations...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Wolfley, Eric \(wolfleel\)" <WOLFLEEL at UCMAIL.UC.EDU>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 12/4/2008 9:01:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] CCM goes "All Steinway"


>Jim and all,

>Forgive me for not participating very much in this discussion...I just haven't had the 
>time to write much with everything else going on. I just got back tonight from our 
>2nd selection trip to NYC (one more to go) and the quality of the selection pianos 
>has been fantastic! Our first shipment of 27 pianos (all Steinways) came last week 
>and the quality and finished nature of the pianos has been excellent. The pianos are 
>still almost all up to pitch, relatively in tune and the voicing is generally very good 
>and musical. Even the A's, M's and S's have arrived with strong, musical voicing 
>which I am most happy about. The students and faculty are all delighted and the 
>place is all a-buzz with excitement if you can imagine. As the beat-up old pianos go 
>out the door and onto the trucks it just seems so obvious that this was a much 
>needed and welcomed event in the history of our institution... A no-brainer. This is 
>all happening while classes, lessons and recitals are happening so you can possibly 
>imagine some of the scheduling challenges, but so far nobody has complained. The 
>second shipment of 29 pianos arrives towards the end of next week as exams are 
>ending so getting everything in place and prepped will be a bit easier as winter break 
>arrives. I'm ordering string covers for all the practice room pianos and some of the 
>piano majors have pledged to form vigilante groups to lynch anyone they find with a 
>cup of coffee (or anything) on the piano. All the piano-major practice rooms are 
>keyed and we are re-keying them since by now there must be dozens of contraband 
>keys floating around.

>I hate the 118S for all the same reasons as Jim Busby and I didn't order even one. 
>We are getting 10 1098's as an experiment to see how they will fare in our 
>environment. To answer those who are curious, the Dean somehow managed to 
>borrow the money from the bank of UC to be paid back over time from Capital 
>money donations. I'll give the breakdown of the purchases here with the comment 
>that the Dean (bless his heart) intends that we replace a lot of the Bostons with 
>Steinways in a few years when we can get more money (I'm not holding my breath 
>on that one...)

>New purchases:

>D - 3 (1 Hamburg, 2 NY - we now have a total of 7, 5 on stages and 2 in large 
>rehearsal rooms)
>B - 20 (each piano teaching studio gets 2 new B's, 4 go into small recital halls)
>A - 22 (vocal studios, piano practice rooms, classrooms)
>M - 22 (various studios, piano practice rooms)
>S - 6   (these go into practice rooms with 2 pianos that are too small for anything 
>else)
>1098 - 10 (for various faculty studios)
>GP-178 - 4 (non-critical classrooms, studios)
>GP-163 - 10 (regular practice rooms, coaching studios)
>UP-132 - 18 (coaching studios, classrooms)
>UP-126 - 50 (regular practice rooms, GA studios)

>I think that adds up right...


>Eric Wolfley, RPT
>Director of Piano Services
>College-Conservatory of Music
>University of Cincinnati
>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim 
>Busby
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:21 PM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] CCM goes "All Steinway"


>All,

>IMO Eric did the right thing for his situation. I'm happy for him.

>But, I wonder how many are actually Bostons, etc. out of the total number?? I'm 
>curious to know. At "Snow College" (a Steinway school in Utah) we have 9 grands (2 
>Ds, 3 Bs and 3Ms and an S) 12 1098s and 12 Boston 118s.

>Eric, is this privileged/private info? I hope you didn't get the Boston 118S. If you did 
>I'll send you a bottle of Tylenol.

>Jim Busby BYU