At the University of Texas, we have a Musical Activities Office, staffed by two full-time employees whose many responsibilities include scheduling recital, rehearsal and tuning times in our our 3 recital venues, several secured practice rooms, organ rooms, classrooms, and any other places which are accessible to faculty, students and piano technicians. This is accomplished by means other than computers; not an ideal arrangement by any means, but the two people we have in the Musical Activities Office are extremely competent and things generally go pretty smoothly. Macintosh computers are used extensively throughout the School of Music, including the Piano Technicians Office (we are stuck with a very slow Mac Plus and an even slower printer. It ain't too high tech, but it works-kind of). Speaking of computers in the Piano Technicians office, what kinds of records do you all keep on your office computers and what software do you use? We piano technicians at U.T. keep general records of when our pianos have had or need: (1) action reconditioning or parts replacement, (2) major rebuilding-restringing, case refinishing, etc., and (3) repairs which will need to be done soon, in order to anticipate future parts ordering, etc. For our office memos, letters, etc., we use MS Word 5.0 and for recordkeeping, FileMaker Pro. Dave Porritt of SMU writes: Unfortunately the Arts school has an all macintosh network. Dave, there are legions of us who regurlarly use Macintosh computers who don't consider ourselves as being the slightest bit "unfortunate". After all, it could be much worse--we could be running "Windoze" (grin). Tom Seay The University of Texas at Austin Sent via FirstClass (R) UUCP Gateway from InfiNet* an online community for progressive information Austin, Texas USA * BBS 512.301.2151
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