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Facilities
The Dana School of Music has the honor of being an All-Steinway School. Only 40 music schools worldwide are designated All-Steinway Schools, including The Juilliard School in New York, Yale University School of Music and the University of Maryland. With a value af $837,000, 68 new Steinway pianos were delivered to the Dana School of Music, making YSU the first public university in Ohio to be designated an All-Steinway School. The pianos have been placed in classrooms, practice rooms and faculty studios throughout Bliss Hall. Aditionally, the school's holdings include harpsichords by Dowd and Sperrhake, two Schlicker pipe organs, three Flentrop pipe organs, consorts of recorders and krummhorns, cornetti, natural trumpets and sackbuts, and a comprehensive collection of standard band and orchestral instruments. The MIDIArt Lab in Bliss Hall offers students the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art computer software and hardware, including advanced music notation, music sequencing (composition and arranging) and automatic accompaniment applications. The lab features Macintosh and IBM workstations, each fully MIDI-equipped with synthesizer modules, keyboard controllers and networked printers.
The extensive library of band, orchestral, and choral music represents musical periods from the Renaissance to the present. Maag Library contains books, music, records, CDs, videos, and CD ROMs for study in music literature, music education and theory classes.
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The Dana School of Music is one of three academic that comprise the College of Fine and Performing Arts. Housed in Bliss Hall, there are 80 acoustically controlled practice rooms, 30 faculty studios, 8 classrooms, rehearsal rooms, and a recital hall with a seating capacity of 237. Large ensembles also perform in off campus in historic 
The Dana Electronic Music Laboratory is equipped with sophisticated hardware and software offering the advanced student of music technology the opportunity to experience such applications as hard-disk recording,sampling, digital editing, and advanced sequencing. Additionally a complete analog music synthesis area offers students fundamental experiences in analog electronic music techniques and composition.