The keyboard harmony studio, with all its attendant electronics, now has room for keyboards, computers, printers, and students, plus room to walk the aisles. There's no mistaking a music school. People hurry, rushing from class to rehearsal to performance.
Musical notes emanate through windows, walls, and doors as if the building is saturated with sound.
Students with large instruments nearly knock each other down passing in stairwells and halls. That's the way it has always been at Blair. There's no less rushing around than before, but with the completion of the Phase I addition, faculty and students now have an additional 40,000 square feet in which to stretch out, sing, study, play, and not automatically bump into each other in the process. Blair's first home on 18th Avenue South consisted of a remodeled house and garage with no soundproofing and insufficient space. The original building on Blair's current site, built in 1980 with 36,000 square feet, was a welcome relief to the overcrowding at the original location.