> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:12:36 -0600 Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > > Hi All, > > We are having the NASM/NASD accredidation "inspections" in a couple weeks. > What have you all found that they "inspect" on the piano end of it? Our > building is going haywire on humidity(dangerously dry!) and I'm finding > that pianos I just tuned a few weeks ago are wildly wacky and can in no > way tune them all...! Do they inspect practice pianos....or should I only > dust them off and make sure the faculty and performance pianos are the > ones up to snuff? How about the harpsichords and forte pianos? (they > only stay in tune for a couple of days anyway...)????????????????? > > Thanks for the input. I've never gone through this before.. > > Paul T. Williams RPT > UNL School of Music > Paul, Sometime in the 90's (some years years before I came to work at San Francisco State), their School of music was put on probation due to the condition of their practice room pianos. They were being regularly serviced by a staff technician, but they were judged to be too old and worn. Considering that they were Hamiltons, Everetts and Wurlitzers purchased between 1955 and 1970, I would say that the accrediting agency was justified in its actions. The school had to embark on a program of upgrading its practice piano inventory (they bought a bunch of Yamaha P-22s) - and got off probation some years later. So my feeling is that unless the pianos are falling apart (like ours were - some of them are still kicking around the School of Theater Arts and I get to tune them every year or two, woopeee!!!...), you don't have much to worry about... Israel Stein
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