<HTML>In a message dated 7/1/2002 6:38:57 PM Central Daylight Time, ilvey@sbcglobal.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">It might be more cost effective for the schools to just lease pianos and hire outside technicians to tune & voice them.  Then when the lease expires...5 years or so...get new ones.  Few repairs, no rebuilding, no shop space necessary, no health benefits, retirement.. </BLOCKQUOTE> In the short term this might be cheaper, however when their supplier descides they no longer want to lease the pianos, as is happening more and more, they will find themselves in a heap of trouble. Andrew Remillard Nothern Illinois University</HTML>