[CAUT] Cleaning Grand Covers

[David Ilvedson]

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Got ya!
David I.

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From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>
To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
Received: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:25:52 -0800
Subject: RE: [CAUT] Cleaning Grand Covers

At 04:03 PM 11/18/2004 -0800, you wrote:


How about always positioning the Baldwin keyboard stage right and=
 the rails won't show?

David I.

It's true that they wouldn't show --however, the new piano is the=
 apple of their eye, and pianists are often taking the lid on and=
 off themselves. (Several two-piano teacher teams in town.)  They=
 usually manage to gouge the case near the hinges at least some=
 of the time. The Baldwin case is already pretty beat up, so we=
 decided that the Steinway lid would stay put, and it could face=
 the normal way, showing its fancy brass Steinway logo ... 

Susan 



 

 

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From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>
To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
Received: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:07:02 -0800
Subject: RE: [CAUT] Cleaning Grand Covers


At 01:15 PM 11/18/2004 -0700, Jim wrote:

I m not kidding, really. Only our trained stage managers or the=
 technicians remove the covers (or move the pianos) and we have a=
 special place for the covers. Pianos are kept in a piano garage.=
 (I m talking about the concert instruments, of course.) Are we=
 the only ones who do it this way? 

Newport Arts Center in Oregon just bought a new Steinway D. They=
 had been really careless about bashing pianos, and their old=
 concert grand just had a big oversized unfitted quilt laid over=
 it. Abruptly, they changed their ways, and incipient trends=
 toward piano-police-hood began to appear in several of them.=
 They are buying fitted covers for ALL their other pianos (the 9=
 foot Baldwin, the 6 foot Baldwin, and three uprights.) But what=
 really amazed me was that (all by themselves) they bought a nice=
 new (tall) bin on wheels to hold the Steinway cover when it is=
 off of the piano, and they put a big fat label on the lid of the=
 bin. "PIANO COVER STORAGE" And they have been using it. 

I would never have predicted this. 

The empty bin fits in the piano garage right along with the piano=
 and the artists bench. 

Now, a question -- their SD-10 now gets to leave its lid in its=
 own room, and gets to share the stage with the new D for two=
 piano concerts. It has two rails along the straight side, no=
 doubt for protecting the lid when it has to be tilted for=
 moving. They are offended by the sight of these rails. It's not=
 likely to be moved on its side in the foreseeable future. Shall=
 I try to get them to just let me sand and repaint the rails to=
 make them look better (which will probably not be enough=
 cosmetic improvement to satisfy them), or would it be reasonable=
 to rout them down so they aren't as apparent onstage? They've=
 been there all along, of course, but the piano has never turned=
 that side to the audience till now. 

Susan Kline 


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