[CAUT] Rockley Family Foundation

[Avery Todd]

Paul,

One thing I'll add is that we did it primarily for the piano major practice
rooms. Most of our other practice instruments were fairly old and not in
that good a shape. One unique thing we have now is that the dealer sends a
tuner(s) out to tune every 3 months, I believe, and every month to check
them over to fix any problems that have come up. This past year was the
first for this particular situation and I haven't heard how it all worked
out yet. I don't know how much work my replacement actually had to do on
them. I've asked (this morning) but haven't heard anything back yet.

Avery Todd, RPT
University of Houston, Ret.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Paul T Williams <
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

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> Thanks Jeannie, and all.
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> I think I'll stay out of this one.  That's all I need to do is free prep
> work for a store. Or should I say, free store work at taxpayer's expense!!
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> Paul
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>   *"Jeannie Grassi" <jcgrassi at earthlink.net>*
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> Hi Paul,
> Those sorts of deals are still going on here in the Seattle area.  A small
> music school in my area had a similar arrangement with the local Yamaha
> dealer only to find that when the sales weren't reaching the expectations of
> the dealer, all the pianos were pulled from the school two days later,
> leaving them with none.  Many institutions have become dependent on this
> type of situation and wouldn't be able to function without the "loaned"
> pianos so it is easy to see what the incentive is.  Too bad purchase and
> maintenance of musical instruments is no longer in the budgets of some music
> schools.
>
> jeannie
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