<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1515" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello CAUTs,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone out there have any = observations/experiences with keyboard teaching labs by any other maker than Yamaha?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some of you techs at larger schools may = not deal with it at all, but here at HSU it has gradually become my = responsibility to keep basic functions of our 26 station Yamaha keyboard teaching lab = alive.  Our lab is 15 years old and its age is showing; replacing broken = headphones, removing erasure debris, and cleaning off note names written on = keys by dimbulb students is no longer adequate to meet the need.  We'd = consider another Yamaha lab, but I would love to have some input = regarding other makers setups from a reliability/usefulness standpoint.  Many = aspects of this Yamaha lab seem to me unnecessarily proprietary and not really = designed to stand up under daily abuse.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Again, I realize many of you may not = deal with this sort of thing at all, but I thought I'd try.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greg Granoff</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Humboldt State University</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>