[CAUT] Water/Alcohol on Yamaha Hammers

[Ronald E Engle]

It seems to me that this whole scenario could have been avoided had the
department head established the policy that no one but the university
technicians touch the pianos.  I'm not sure I would want to work in a
university that did not have that policy.

Ron Engle


On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:56:19 -0700 Jeff Stickney
<jpstickney@montanadsl.net> writes:
> List,
> 
> Wow, knock me over with a feather.  I was called by the adjunct 
> today 
> and received an apology, and we had a lengthy conversation about 
> extending his concern for the Yamaha to include the whole piano 
> inventory (among many other things).  At this point, it looks like 
> things may turn out well after all, or at least as well as can be 
> expected.  The jury is still out over whether I will hang in there 
> at 
> this university, but at least this situation has not forced me to 
> leave 
> under negative circumstances.  I have a meeting later today with the 
> 
> adjunct and other piano faculty.  Maybe we'll all plot to overthrow 
> the 
> Dean.  Oops, I didn't say that.  Thanks again to all of you for your 
> 
> input - any more ideas about new hammers would be great.  That will 
> be 
> happening no matter what.
> 
> Jeff Stickney
> 
> Alan McCoy wrote:
> > Actually Wim I don't think I said that he shouldn't put up with 
> it. I said I
> > wouldn't be able to tolerate that kind of political BS. The 
> difference being
> > that I wasn't offering him any advice, just what my feelings might 
> be if I
> > were in his place. Even though I know some of the folks there (my 
> wife is an
> > alumni, as is my musician daughter) I certainly don't presume to 
> know all
> > the factors. 
> >
> > Working on the piano is the easy part.  The people 
> though............yikes!
> >
> > Alan 
> >
> >
> >   
> >> From: <Wimblees@aol.com>
> >> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" 
> <caut@ptg.org>
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:31:33 -0500 (EST)
> >> To: <caut@ptg.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Water/Alcohol on Yamaha Hammers
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>  
> >> I think you mentioned that his father bought the piano, and that 
> he (or his
> >> father), went to the dean to get someone to work on this piano, 
> even paying
> >> for  it. I wonder if his father is also "paying" to get his son to 
> teach.
> >> When 
> >> I say "paying," I mean is his father making a sizable 
> contribution to  the
> >> school, with the understanding that his son be allowed to teach. 
> (Or is  this
> >> guy that good that he is indeed a qualified professor?)  In  
> either case, as
> >> you 
> >> mentioned, this is pure politics, and there is not a hell of  a 
> lot you can
> >> do about it. Mike said lay low. Alan mentioned that you should 
> not  put up
> >> with 
> >> it. I am recommending that you do that, too. As a form of  
> protest, tell the
> >> chair you no longer want to work for the school, as long  as this 
> adjunct is
> >> teaching there. 
> >>  
> >> Wim 
> >>     
> >
> >
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