[CAUT] University rentals

[Porritt, David]

We too have a no-rental policy.  The only time one of our concert grands
has ever left our building (in my 21 years here) was for the memorial
service for Lamar Hunt which was held in our sports coliseum last year.
Of course Mr. Hunt was a former board member, alumnus and dear friend of
the school.  Even then the piano didn't leave the campus.

 

dave

 

David M. Porritt

dporritt at smu.edu

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In a message dated 6/19/07 12:37:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu writes:

	
	Do any of y'all have such policies for these kind of events?  I
would be very interested in hearing/reading your thoughts! 
	
	See you KC! 
	
	Paul T. Williams RPT 

Paul

At the University of Alabama we had a no rent policy. The only exception
was for university events, and then only for events where one of the
music faculty or student was going to be using the piano. The request
had to be approved by the chairman. We did make a few exception when the
requests came from higher up. The only piano I allowed to be taken out
was a 30 year old Kawai KG 1 from a practice room. But under no
circumstances was any of our concert instruments taken out of the
building. 

 

I would highly recommend you have your school adopt the same policy. As
Conrad said, the school should not be in the piano rental business. 

 

Willem Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Tuscaloosa, AL (soon to be Hawaii)





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