Brian's post of Re: New Job for Wim

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In a message dated 9/5/01 2:00:42 PM Central Daylight Time, doepke@fwi.com 
writes:


> Having been in education for over 20 years, I am also curious to find out
> about The University's position regarding regular maintenance and
> regulating.  When I was teaching choral music, I wish that a local
> technician would have told me more about how climate/humidity changes
> affected the pianos in my department.  Even some literature from the PTG
> would have been welcome.
> 
> Brian Doepke
> 

Brian:

The big difference with maintaining pianos at the university and maintaining 
pianos in a school, is that I am paid a salary. I have a budget to buy piano 
parts, but other than going through the purchasing process, I don't have to 
ask permission, and it doesn't have to be "put in the budget," to repair a 
piano. 

As was mentioned by others, it is important that the music teacher, and 
perhaps the principal, of problems with the piano. Schools have paid a lot of 
money for an instrument, and if you can convince them that paying you $500 
now, it will keep the piano going for another 10 years, instead of having to 
buy a new piano for $5000 in 2 years. It's like the Fram Oil Filter 
commercial. "You can pay me (a small amount) now, or pay me (a large amount) 
later"

Wim

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