[CAUT] Care and feeding of stage grands

[Avery Todd]

I guess I was fairly lucky when I still worked at the University of Houston.
NO one removed the lids except for the Hall staff! It really pays to have a
good relationship with them if you're lucky enough to have that in your main
concert hall! I loved it. I NEVER had to do it! <grin>

Avery Todd

On Jan 19, 2008 1:41 PM, <A440A at aol.com> wrote:

>  Kent asks:
> << >I have a couple questions about maintaining concert pianos on stages
>  at
>
> >universities.
>
> >
>
> > 1) Do you have a policy about the touch-up of finish damage?  Does
> anyone
> touch-up as  needed? Or
>
> > perhaps annually? Never?<
>
>            At Vanderbilt, the 5 year old piano is still nice,the 28 year
> old
> D is beat up fairly severely.  We have  touch up done about 10-15 years
> into
> the use, and a refinish about every three decades.  I think I lightly
> oiled
> the case of the new one when it was delivered, and it hasn't shown the
> fingerprints as badly as one of those dry matte finishes do.
>
>
> > 2) Do you have a policy on removing lids?<
>
>      Oh yes, I do.  However, the students and faculty don't, so our pianos
> are sometimes sitting there topless without me having a clue.  I am not
> being
> paid to enforce rules, just to repair the damage.
>
>  >There is also a history of  damage being
>
> > done while removing and replacing grand piano lids. >>
>
>       The greatest harm I ever saw was done when only the middle hinge pin
> was in.  The first time the lid was opened and put on the long stick, it
> pivoted on the pin, breaking the prop stick, smashing the music desk and
> scratching
> everything in the path as it twisted and ripped the pin and screws out of
> the
> rim.  Great fun, lots of shouting etc.
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
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