piano tech. position

[Michael Jorgensen]

Here are the figures,
107 Pianos
2 harpsichords
15 addition. around campus--not regularly serviced
150 Concerts/year in three auditoriums.
Student Numbers --Unknown.

-Mike Jorgensen 

DMCKECH wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> The time has arrived for me to make my best justification for adding
> another piano technician position here at Ithaca College. The addition to
> the music building will be complete next spring and there will be more
> pianos to service.
> 
> One of the primary arguments will be the number of pianos per technician.
> Also, these numbers compared to the number of piano majors. If anyone is
> willing to share their numbers with me I would be most grateful. Send
> privately if you wish.
> 
> My numbers currently are 139 pianos, 3 harpsichords, 46 piano majors for
> one technician. There are about 12 additional pianos around the campus that
> I service occasionally. I expect an increase of about 23 pianos and one
> harpsichord. One must also keep in mind the number of secondary piano
> students and music ed. majors to this equation. I do not have those figures
> for IC at the moment.
> 
> I also plan to use the Guidelines for Effective Institutional Piano
> Maintenance published by the CAUT committee of PTG in my argument. Some of
> you may remember, in a post to Pianotech about two years ago, the database
> I set up that uses the workload formula from the Guidelines. (I also
> demonstrated it at the CAUT Forum in Dearborn.) The database is set up on
> FileMaker Pro. I would like to offer it to anyone responding to this post.
> 
> Regards,
> Don McKechnie
> dmckech@ithaca.edu