Ah yes! Since SMU is a private university, I forget about all the bidding etc. you have to do at a state school. That does complicate things! dp David M. Porritt dporritt at smu.edu ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:24 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] follow up on tuning for the local orchestra In a message dated 4/11/2006 1:27:55 PM Central Standard Time, dporritt at mail.smu.edu writes: While I can see the need for new or rebuilt instruments, why would becoming an All Steinway School be a plus? dp David M. Porritt David I won't go into the philosophical reasons for becoming an all Steinway School, because I realize there are pros and cons for that. But the way the Alabama bid laws are, it will actually be easier to get all the pianos from one vendor, than to try to put out bids for 40 pianos from different vendors. Also, included are the rebuilding of some of our Steinways by the factory. I realize that there are private rebuilders that could do the work, but again, because of our bid laws, I would rather have control over that aspect, than to let the university's finance office take the lowest bid. Wim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060412/3b5d0f77/attachment.html
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