<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> List, <p>I believe Fred has it right in his post. That is exaclty what happened here at IC back in the 80's during and after the NASM visit. Also, I had to submit a report to the dean on our plan for replacement of the old inventory. We got a capital budget for several years to purchase new instruments. Of course it helped that it was "the fat 80's" and the college had some extra money to burn. <p>Don McKechnie <br>Ithaca College <p>Fred Sturm wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <pre>    Don't count on NASM to force departments to keep pianos tuned. Accreditation review happens only every ten years. And most of it is done through self-study (ie, the department reviewing itself). There aren't any NASM police out there watching - NASM reviewers are volunteer faculty from other institutions, who go for one week or so, read the self-evaluation, talk to some people, wander around, and write their reports.     Not to say that NASM can't be useful. I'll write more a little later, but will just note briefly here that I think our department managed to get sufficient attention of the upper administration, via a NASM report that noted lacks in piano purchase and maintenance, that we may end up with a replacement budget. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico</pre> </blockquote> </html>