<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/2/2004 1:45:42 PM Central Standard Time, jminor@ui= uc.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I would interested in seeing published guideli= nes for prepared pianos at <BR>other institutions. I recently had a grad stu= dent in composition ask me <BR>what he could and could not do with prepared = piano for a composition he was <BR>commissioned to write.<BR>I had a number = of suggestions but began to wonder if I had been concise enough.<BR><BR>John= Minor<BR>University of Illinois</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>I might be barking up a very tall tree, but I don't see a need to "prep= are" a piano other than having it tuned and voiced. I don't consider th= ose who ask to have the piano strummed like a guitar, plucked like a ch= icken, or otherwise misuse the instrument, should be called composers.&= nbsp; I more or less agree with Jim, that any tampering should be off l= imits. Period.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just my thoughts on the matter.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></BODY></HTML>