<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [CAUT] tuning for the local orchestra</title></head><body> <div>Wim,</div> <div>Here's your opportunity to start the account, and it won't cost the department anything! This is also a first step toward getting an annual budget. Go for it!</div> <div><br></div> <div>Respectfully,</div> <div>Jon</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">In a message dated 4/7/2006 12:32:52 PM Central Standard Time, ralinoj@muohio.edu writes:</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"></font> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">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.</font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Respectfully,</font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Jon</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"></font></blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">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.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"> </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Wim</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Jon Ralinovsky<br> Piano Technician<br> Department of Music<br> Miami University<br> 513/529-6548</div> </body> </html>