Your list has me drooling...wow! Congratulations... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Wolfley, Eric \(wolfleel\)" <WOLFLEEL at UCMAIL.UC.EDU> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 12/4/2008 9:01:04 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] CCM goes "All Steinway" >Jim and all, >Forgive me for not participating very much in this discussion...I just haven't had the >time to write much with everything else going on. I just got back tonight from our >2nd selection trip to NYC (one more to go) and the quality of the selection pianos >has been fantastic! Our first shipment of 27 pianos (all Steinways) came last week >and the quality and finished nature of the pianos has been excellent. The pianos are >still almost all up to pitch, relatively in tune and the voicing is generally very good >and musical. Even the A's, M's and S's have arrived with strong, musical voicing >which I am most happy about. The students and faculty are all delighted and the >place is all a-buzz with excitement if you can imagine. As the beat-up old pianos go >out the door and onto the trucks it just seems so obvious that this was a much >needed and welcomed event in the history of our institution... A no-brainer. This is >all happening while classes, lessons and recitals are happening so you can possibly >imagine some of the scheduling challenges, but so far nobody has complained. The >second shipment of 29 pianos arrives towards the end of next week as exams are >ending so getting everything in place and prepped will be a bit easier as winter break >arrives. I'm ordering string covers for all the practice room pianos and some of the >piano majors have pledged to form vigilante groups to lynch anyone they find with a >cup of coffee (or anything) on the piano. All the piano-major practice rooms are >keyed and we are re-keying them since by now there must be dozens of contraband >keys floating around. >I hate the 118S for all the same reasons as Jim Busby and I didn't order even one. >We are getting 10 1098's as an experiment to see how they will fare in our >environment. To answer those who are curious, the Dean somehow managed to >borrow the money from the bank of UC to be paid back over time from Capital >money donations. I'll give the breakdown of the purchases here with the comment >that the Dean (bless his heart) intends that we replace a lot of the Bostons with >Steinways in a few years when we can get more money (I'm not holding my breath >on that one...) >New purchases: >D - 3 (1 Hamburg, 2 NY - we now have a total of 7, 5 on stages and 2 in large >rehearsal rooms) >B - 20 (each piano teaching studio gets 2 new B's, 4 go into small recital halls) >A - 22 (vocal studios, piano practice rooms, classrooms) >M - 22 (various studios, piano practice rooms) >S - 6 (these go into practice rooms with 2 pianos that are too small for anything >else) >1098 - 10 (for various faculty studios) >GP-178 - 4 (non-critical classrooms, studios) >GP-163 - 10 (regular practice rooms, coaching studios) >UP-132 - 18 (coaching studios, classrooms) >UP-126 - 50 (regular practice rooms, GA studios) >I think that adds up right... >Eric Wolfley, RPT >Director of Piano Services >College-Conservatory of Music >University of Cincinnati >-----Original Message----- >From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim >Busby >Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:21 PM >To: caut at ptg.org >Subject: Re: [CAUT] CCM goes "All Steinway" >All, >IMO Eric did the right thing for his situation. I'm happy for him. >But, I wonder how many are actually Bostons, etc. out of the total number?? I'm >curious to know. At "Snow College" (a Steinway school in Utah) we have 9 grands (2 >Ds, 3 Bs and 3Ms and an S) 12 1098s and 12 Boston 118s. >Eric, is this privileged/private info? I hope you didn't get the Boston 118S. If you did >I'll send you a bottle of Tylenol. >Jim Busby BYU
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