On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 03:34 PM, Alan McCoy wrote: > If you have student fees for these purposes: > > 1. How much is the fee? How much is allocated for piano maintenance? > Piano > purchases? > > 2. Who pays the fee? Music majors only? Minors too? Ed majors? > Hi Alan, What little funding I get is from recital fees. Every student pays a recital fee - something like $40 or $50. All that money goes into my account. I'm not sure exactly how much I get a year, but its somewhere in the $2K range. My dean set up my account so that it can roll over from year to year and build up. But this type of account costs me an extra 8% every time funds are moved out of the account. I'd been letting it just build up over the last few years and it got up to about $10K this year before I started ordering parts. Probably not exactly what you were looking for, but if not for this, my budget for maintaining a $3 million inventory would be a big goose egg. Luckily, we have a relatively new inventory, average age of about 17 years or something like that, thanks to a major purchase of 77 pianos in 1995 (they sold off the older pianos then - though I sort of wish they'd not sold the rebuildable grands). So, at this point, I'm mainly concerned with rebuilding the 35 year old Steinways, at least up until the new ones start needing new parts. Jeff Tanner, RPT School Of Music University of South Carolina
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