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I've got 21 Boston 118 S which are smaller and to Kawai's credit, they have not climbed louder over the past 9 years. Loud pianos in small practice rooms is pretty common. Our rooms have sound absorbing panels, which help, and posters advising of ear plug use are on the wall. Some of the wind and brass are much louder than a piano is in a small room.

Me too - The kids rarely raise the lids on the B's in the practice rooms. Fortunately, I get the needles on these every summer, with touch ups at tunings if needed. Replaced hammers on one last summer, too.

Wow. Or maybe they say it because they consider working musicians to be part of the workforce.

Larry.

Well that is the point now, isn't it?

I can see how school donors might be attracted by a program like this. But does everybody fall for it?

In Waco? I doubt it. More to the point, that little school has no real way of tracking those students anyhow. Unless of course they are using stat's from the Bureau of Labor? (LOL)

They're talking about former MCC students who went on to Baylor, SMU, Stephen F. Austin, Juilliard, The Manhattan School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Why are you disparaging these people? Do you think Juilliard, MSM, and NEC grads can't get a job in music just because they grew up in Waco?

And apparently your alma mater's alumni relations office is less efficient than mine. Mine hasn't lost track of my location, place of employment (and apparently my income level) in 40 years!

Larry.

I leave for vacation and come back and this thread is still going!

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Neither have the three schools I received degrees from ....and for some reason, they keep asking for money.

Hilarious!

Hi Larry,

Oh, please.

1-Actually, the cast majority of graduates from the top schools end up, in the very first years of leaving school, with jobs in real estate, finance, various non-profits, food service and even domestic help, and other fields not related to music.

Surely you knew that, didn't you?

I have several friends with advanced performance degrees from the very top schools who are administrators in non-profits, don't teach, and don't perform much at all. They certainly don't earn even the majority of their income from making music.

2- As far as the "efficiency" of my alma mater goes- I was a member of my almuni association for 30+ years. I lived at the same address for 18 of those years. I only joined so I could get a discounted library card, which was worth its weight in gold.

After the 5th year of membership, they stopped sending me fun-raising pitches. Can you imagine? They must not have needed the money, or they thought that I had sent in the requisite amount. Every year I had to renew my membership for my library card, and I had to remind the association staff person of my address each time, which they had a hard time finding. In 2006, they lost track of me entirely (I had also given up my library card). And I went to the University of California. My career has included quite a bit of groundbreaking published research relevant to the field, one domestic patent issued and two others pending, a number of publications and high-profile performances, a couple of very nice published reviews, and a number of my students getting in to good schools including my old department. I was the only person from my department to have such accomplishments professionally, and the alumni newsletter NEVER had a single item in it about any of my career highlights without my telling them about it. I stopped doing that after the third year of membership because the whole thing was so stupid. They didn't follow anything about me in any way, not even when I started my consulting business 25+ years ago and started getting big clients including a couple of state governments, two of which had announcements published in the major regional papers.

What can I say, except that 1- I am not impressed, and 2-your school thinks, very obviously, that they need your money more than my school needs mine.

BTW, I don't care where you went to school, my school was bigger and better funded. You decide what all that means.

As far as a microscopically tiny junior college in a backwater suburb of Dallas, I have no ideas where they would get the money to track former students in this fashion.

Unless of course the Steinway group helps them endow a foundation specifically for this function....(LOL)...

...it's still a bunch of marketing BS...that helps the music student very little fundamentally...if at all...

Well, you can thank the internet that you've been able to rectify that situation in your last post.

I heard tell, once, of an all - well some brand- school which was given a piano by a different maker but they couldn't admit this even though everybody knew it to be the case. Of course I don't believe a word of it.

I'm certain they are still not paying attention.