[CAUT] Loan Program

[Alan McCoy]

Hi Avery,

We participate in the Yamaha program but really we deal with the local
dealer not with Yamaha. Never had any problems to speak of except that this
year might be the last year and then the university will have to bite the
bullet and come up with the dough to buy some pianos. A real
disappointment....  ;-)  (he said, just oozing sarcasm). Actually I have
recently had some very productive talks with my chair and piano faculty
about this scenario (no loaners) and the fact that we have an aging
inventory coupled with no budget for either piano maintenance or piano
replacement/rebuilding. I wrote up a document making the case for budgeting
for these items and presented it to the faculty. It was well received. We'll
be meeting with the dean in a couple weeks. I think it has finally sunk in
that what we have been doing (nothing) is not a terribly astute strategy for
the long haul.

Back to the loaners (mostly P22s): they do come in needing very little work
except lots of tuning. But, then again I'm not all that inclined to put much
time into these pianos because 1) they are in non-piano faculty studios and
so are a bit lower on the priority list and 2) I'm up to my rear in
alligators anyway and 3) they aren't ours and won't be around very long.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: Avery Todd <atodd@uh.edu>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:32:05 -0500
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] Loan Program
> 
> List,
> 
> Does anyone have any current information on the Yamaha loan program?
> I remember people saying in years past that they'd had a few problems.
> Especially with the pianos arriving on time. Any information would be
> appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Avery
> 
> 
> _______________________
> Avery Todd, RPT
> Moores School of Music
> University of Houston
> Houston, TX 77204-4017
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