Guidelines

[Kent Swafford]

Donald R McKechnie wrote:

>Scott, Bill and List,
>
>The Home Office does not like the idea of posting the Guidelines on the
>CAUT Website. It is a matter of economics. I can understand their
>argument and I am not inclined to do battle over it.

I'll see what I can do at the pre-Council board meeting.

Steinway does not charge for _their_ guidelines, because they know it is 
in their best interests to get the information into the hands of the 
institutional piano owners. It is possible the PTG could look at it the 
same way. We could easily turn the Guidelines into a PDF file that could 
be downloaded.

Putting a PDF file on the web would be moving to a software version of 
the Guidelines, which is needed, but people might expect there also to be 
a software version of the formula, into which they could punch their 
variables and let the computer calculate the number of needed piano 
techs. Steinway has a good solution by having their formula set up in 
both 123 and Excel formats; perhaps we could do something similar.

Kent Swafford