<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] keyboard lab</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Greg,     Here at UNM we have been using Roland for about ten= years. I have nothing to do with the lab, but there have been no complaints= that I know of, and they seem to have held up well. We started with a hybri= d loan program, where they placed 15 or so with the understanding we had to = buy a couple every semester, until we finally owned them all. The group pian= o teacher loves them, says she wouldn’t have any other brand. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico On 9/21/05 11:44 AM, "Greg Granoff" <gjg2@humboldt.edu> wro= te: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hello CAUTs, Anyone out there have any observat= ions/experiences with keyboard teaching labs by any other maker than Yamaha?= Some of you techs at larger schools may not deal with it at all, but here a= t HSU it has gradually become my responsibility to keep basic functions of o= ur 26 station Yamaha keyboard teaching lab alive.  Our lab is 15 years = old and its age is showing; replacing broken headphones, removing erasure de= bris, 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, bu= t I would love to have some input regarding other makers setups from a relia= bility/usefulness standpoint.  Many aspects of this Yamaha lab seem to = me unnecessarily proprietary and not really designed to stand up under daily= abuse. Again, I realize many of you may not deal with this sort of thing at all, b= ut I thought I'd try. Thanks in advance. Greg Granoff Humboldt State University </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>