[CAUT] Alcohol/water on Yamaha hammers

[ed440@mindspring.com]

Jeff-

I'm wondering how you can position yourself so that whatever happens will be a "win" for you?

Do you want to risk your job to save a set of hammers?

Perhaps you should gracefully get out of the line of fire and let them do whatever they want, because it sounds like there are some serious power issues at work.  Maybe powerful enough to cause people to hear what power wants them to hear.

Good luck.

Ed Sutton 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Stickney <jpstickney@montanadsl.net>
>Sent: Jan 6, 2006 9:01 PM
>To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Alcohol/water on Yamaha hammers
>
>List,
>
>Thank you for your responses so far.  The CFIII is from 1994, so as some 
>of you have indicated it might be a candidate for that treatment.  
>However, I don't trust the other tech to know what he is doing enough to 
>do it right.  This all comes at a time when I have been pushing for a 
>1/2 time staff position (currently a $12,000/year contract - no surprise 
>the Yamaha isn't maintained the way it should be - plus it competes with 
>a Steinway D on stage and gets less use).  We are also scheduled for a 
>Steinway Inventory Evaluation in a couple weeks.  To add to the 
>complication, the adjunct went to the Dean - over the head of the chair 
>of the department - and the adjunct's dad bought/donated the piano to 
>the U.  OK, so there you have the tip of the politics.  It goes on, but 
>you get the gist.  It's starting to feel like a no-win, but at least the 
>majority opinion seems to be that alcohol/water is not the approach of 
>choice.
>
>Any more input would certainly be helpful - I love this list for the 
>opportunity to "think through" a situation like this.  Thanks.
>
>Jeff Stickney
>UM
>
>Jeff Stickney wrote:
>> List:
>>
>> I have a Yamaha CFIII here at UM.  Because of a political situation 
>> too complex to describe, an adjunct piano faculty here wants to bring 
>> in his "personal technician" to voice and regulate the piano.  He 
>> wants to use an alcohol/water solution on the hammers to voice.  The 
>> last piano he did this on (a Kawai KG-2D) was turned to mush, and I am 
>> concerned that is what would happen to our 9' Yamaha.  Do any of you 
>> have experience using this solution on Yamaha hammers, and have they 
>> been good or bad?  Of course, I'm not happy about them bringing in 
>> this other "tech", but it may be unavoidable due to the politics.  
>> Thanks for any input.
>>
>> Jeff Stickney
>> University of Montana
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