A proposal for more staff

Robert Grijalva pianoman@umich.edu
Thu Oct 19 12:30 MDT 2000


Hello List,

Some of you may know that we have just hired a new Dean of the School of
Music here at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  As one of the many
new hopes and dreams around this place, I'm hoping to increase our staff
of two in order to handle the continuing increases in demand for pianos
and services here.  We've got 231 pianos now, 101 grands and the rest
upright.  There's just Ron Torrella and myself handling eleven performance
venues, five concert Ds, and close to four hundred concerts per year.

As you might imagine, I've been asked as part of my proposal for
additional staff to take a survey of our main competitor institutions to
find out what they've got by way of technical staff and pianos.  So, this
won't apply to most of you, in which case you can ignore
this missive, but I'd like to know about the following institutions and
find out anything that any of you can offer:

Indiana University at Bloomington
Univ. of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
Northwestern University
Oberlin College 
Julliard Conservatory
Rice University
University of Minnesota

Specifically:  

How many technicians and what are their titles?
General duties for each title
How many pianos broken down for grand and uprights
How many performance venues
How many concert pianos
Approximate number of concerts per year

Wish me luck, good colleagues.  This may be my best chance in years to
come closer to that ideal tech/piano ratio we're all so fond of striving
for...--Bob G.

Robert Grijalva
Asst. Professor and Director, Piano Technology
School of Music
Phone: 734-764-6207
e-mail: pianoman@umich.edu




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