On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Paul Milesi wrote: > I’m wondering what sorts of pianos other schools have in teaching > studios for theory/comp, flute, trombone, choir director, and, > particularly, voice. Are they verticals or grands? How frequently > tuned? Better or worse shape than practice rooms? Piano faculty two large grands (St Bs) Voice faculty (3 of them) one St B each. A couple part timers have uprights. Woodwinds: oboe, flute, clarinet, sax have grands; bassoon an upright strings: violin, viola grands; cello, bass uprights brass, all uprights Theory/comp mostly uprights, one small grand with Pianodisc miscellaneous is usually upright (Music ed, history, etc) Allocation is largely on the basis of faculty preference at this point (those who have an upright chose to because of space issues), as we have the resources to provide a grand where requested, at least within a year or two (a budget for piano maintenance and replacement, based on a course fee). Classrooms, six have grands, two uprights Tuning for faculty is 2x per semester minimum, more for piano (close to 1 per month) and somewhat more for many of the other applied instruments (depends on the individual, and how much they use the piano and care). Things are less stable in the fall, so 3x then and once spring is common. Classrooms get tuned in a rough priority scheme between piano faculty and average faculty schedules. Practice uprights are a mix of better and worse condition than faculty. Grands are, finally at this point, pretty comparable except for the use factor (voicing gets more shrill, for instance). In general, most of our pianos are in quite acceptable condition now (were far worse when I came here 23 years ago). Tuning of practice grands is between piano and other faculty in frequency. Practice uprights average 1 1/2 per semester. All that said, I wouldn't criticize your decisions. They are based on your resources, and seem reasonable in terms of priorities. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091208/de6eebf5/attachment.htm>
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