[CAUT] lab woes

Fred Sturm fssturm@unm.edu
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:58:31 -0600


Yep, we had the same, though I think 15 to 20 Hamiltons instead of 27.
Fortunately before my time as piano technician (I was a grad student then).
We had a Wurlitzer hybrid (mechanical/electric) lab as an interim between
the Hamiltons and the current Roland lab.

Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico



On 9/22/05 11:04 AM, "Greg Granoff" <gjg2@humboldt.edu> wrote:

> Michelle,
> 
> It IS odd how these strange connections seem to occur.  The instructor
> running up and down the hallway is funny, but you have to try to imagine
> what used to be here as a group piano lab at HSU when I came in 1989:  A big
> room with 27--yup, 27!--Hamilton uprights all playing at once.  And they
> operated here that way for years and years.  In fact, when the Yamaha lab
> that started this whole thread was purchased, the head of the piano area
> here was actually angry about losing the above described acoustic nightmare.
> Go figure....
> 
> Greg


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