<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 4/7/2006 12:32:52 PM Central Standard Time, ralinoj@muohio.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>In this situation, I would recommend that the TSO pay money into your piano account for rental and tuning. It seems unfair that the university would be asked to supply a resource (the pianos) and not be assisted financially by the TSO for their upkeep.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Respectfully,</DIV> <DIV>Jon</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>That would be great, except for one major problem. There is no such thing as a "piano account". I don't have a budget. I can get small items if I ask for them, but I cannot buy sets of hammers, much less bass strings or pins, etc. I will approach the chair and see what he says about upping the "rent" the TSO, especially if the piano is used, but I doubt very much if any of that money will come to me as compesation, or to my "acount" to buy parts. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>