<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>     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 TuneHunter@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am a contract piano technician at two schools, both of whom have money problems.  It's my understanding, though, that in order for a music school to maintain its NASM accreditation, the  music school pianos have to be tuned on a regular basis.  Am I correct about this?  (Hope so!) Sheila Hunter Salem College Winston-Salem State University</blockquote> </html>