University piano loan programs

[Thomas D. Seay, III]

>Sender: tsai@peabody.jhu.edu
>Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 07:49:40 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Caleb Tsai <tsai@peabody.jhu.edu>
>To: t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
>Subject: Re: University piano loan programs
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>Tom,
> The lease program we have with Baldwin has its good points as well as a
>down side, obviously the good point of it is that students have new
>pianos to use every year, the down side is that the new pianos require a
>lot of tunings as well as repair during this break in period. Students
>would often time find the pianos easily get out of tune and have problems
>like stickings keys and dampers, making these instruments not too
>reliable for both teachings and practices usage.And of course, after we
>finally have those new pianos settle down, they are ready to leave us,
>which makes our tuners very frustrated.I do not have experience with the
>Kawai leasing arrangements, hopefully they are in better conditions,like
>to know what arrangements you have with them.
>Good luck!
>Caleb
>

Tom Seay
t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin