Gurgling in my tummy

[Fred S. Sturm]

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    Don't count on NASM to force departments to keep pianos tuned.
Accreditation review happens only every ten years. And most of it is
done through self-study (ie, the department reviewing itself). There
aren't any NASM police out there watching - NASM reviewers are volunteer
faculty from other institutions, who go for one week or so, read the
self-evaluation, talk to some people, wander around, and write their
reports.
    Not to say that NASM can't be useful. I'll write more a little
later, but will just note briefly here that I think our department
managed to get sufficient attention of the upper administration, via a
NASM report that noted lacks in piano purchase and maintenance, that we
may end up with a replacement budget.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico

TuneHunter@aol.com wrote:

> I am a contract piano technician at two schools, both of whom have
> money problems.  It's my understanding, though, that in order for a
> music school to maintain its NASM accreditation, the  music school
> pianos have to be tuned on a regular basis.  Am I correct about this?
> (Hope so!)
>
> Sheila Hunter
> Salem College
> Winston-Salem State University

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