Rutgers has 125 pianos in full time use, including nine in five recital venues and thirty more on their sides or with a sign saying "Not being serviced". I am fulltime 37.5 hours per week with full benefits. I cannot do a proper job with that many pianos, neither can you. You will need another and possible a third technician to help in the last week before classes begin. I have a shop space with my own equipment and a salary of $42K, not enough for the stress and agrivation of the job. Juliard, Manhattan and Oberlin as well as UT Austin have enough full and part time people to do the job well and right. There should be one technician for 60 pianos or more if the humidity changes radically, the pianos are old, their quality was low to begin with and the standards of service is to be high. I know this may not answer all your questions, but keep nagging and I will get it all out there for you. In the meantime call the home office and get copies of the effective insistitutional piano maintenance paper. This will help more to establish your case than anything I say will. Newton nhunt@rci.rutger.edu
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