<html> Richard West has a valid point re: 5 years of use out of keyboards.  We buy Disklaviers too instead of Clavinovas, or the like.  However, we put Clavinovas, which we get on a loan program, in some of the practice rooms (in leu of uprights) which compliment the Disklaviers which we have in many of the teaching studios. The Clavinovas are turned over every year.   At 10:00 PM 2/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>This afternoon I was asked by the director of the school of music what I thought of the idea of having electronic pianos in the classrooms rather than acoustic.  They figure that this way they could use some of the mounds of money slated for technology i. e. computers to buy pianos.  My reply was quite predictably that I thought it was a bad idea.  I would like some input: 1.  Does anyone have experience with electronic pianos in classrooms?  Are they working out? 2.  I would like to hear some opinions. What do you see as the pros and cons? Thanks, Mitch Staples Ohio State University </blockquote> </html>