[CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments

[David Love]

Perhaps we should clarify just who exactly we mean by the "music
administration" but I don't think photocopy maintenance is a particularly
good analogy.  The music administration clearly has much more invested in
the care and maintenance of pianos than of photocopy machines.  Plus it
seems like you're suggesting that we should be answerable to a service
agency even further removed from the music departments in terms of assessing
their particular needs, feedback, priorities and, budget decisions which
invariably need to be made.  Ultimately we are "answerable" to those who use
our services and I would prefer a general dialogue which, I think, leads to
better decision making than simply trying to stake out one's territory.  But
your situation might be different.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Tanner
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:50 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments

David,
Should the photocopy maintenance also answer to the music administration?
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano juries on concert instruments


> Agreed, I think it depends on the music administration.  Eliminating them
> from the loop seems pretty difficult.  At Stanford I've always had very 
> good
> experiences with the Music Administration and invariably they need to
> coordinate use and budget requirements anyway so it's hard to ignore them.
> My experience is that the farther away you get from the department 
> involved
> the more bureaucratic it gets.
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>