Hi List, Some of my greenish hue is starting to wear off on being a CAUT, but on budget matters with piano faculty, in particular, I shine brighter that the emerald city!! We have 105 keyboard instruments here at the university, one of them being a Belt forte-piano about 25 years old. The professor who plays it primarily is demanding a major rehabilitation to it which will require some outside help with my assisting this outside expert. The estimated cost of bringing this "expert" in will take over 28% of my yearly budget. The instrument is used in concert 6-8 times per year as compared to our 3 Steinway D's, 1 concert Baldwin and 3 Steinway B's which are used constantly. Some of the other faculty are up in arms about using the piano budget and insist that this is a "special project" and should use "special funds" like grants and the like. Of course I agree strongly both ways! It is a university instrument, so it should use university funds. On the other hand it is used so infrequently, that I can't see using a huge slice of my pie. On the third hand, one of my responsibilities is to see to it that all instruments are happy. Having such a limited budget as I do, if I had to replace a good quality grand, (not even concert level), I would be spending far more than one year's budget, leaving all other instruments on hold until next year whatever the need may be.INCLUDING the concert instruments. So I ask for a bit of seasoned advise from you all. How have you handled such delemmas? Thanks for your help. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you..... Paul T. Williams RPT University of Nebraska-Lincoln -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060918/afc0b362/attachment.html
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