[CAUT] caut Digest, Vol 1106, Issue 34

[Thomas Russell]

I am the hired gun at Iowa State University.  They don't have the  
budget at this point to have a full or half time position for piano  
technician.  This means they also don't have the budget to worry  
about minor case damage.  I have just this month completed regulating  
and voicing the primary D and B on the music hall stage for the first  
time in way too long.  The second priority is practice room Ls and Ms  
for piano major use.  The third priority is faculty studio  
maintenance.  Although the performance instruments sound and play at  
a high level, it would be nice to have a major donor cough up the  
dough to do some serious rebuilding on the other 2 dozen aging  
Steinways.  Oh well, I guess the football stadium needs upgrading  
even more.

Tom Russell, Iowa State University

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>    1. Care and feeding of stage grands (Kent Swafford)
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> From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com>
> Date: January 18, 2008 9:00:14 PM CST
> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: [CAUT] Care and feeding of stage grands
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> I have a couple questions about maintaining concert pianos on  
> stages at universities.
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> 1) Do you have a policy about the touch-up of finish damage? I  
> would think a good-looking piano would generate more respect and  
> care than a beat-up one.  (Although I didn't think that the time a  
> couple years ago when we had a D refinished and the first week-end  
> it was back in service, it received more damage than it had before  
> being refinished. I still haven't recovered from that one.) Does  
> anyone touch-up as needed? Or perhaps annually? Never?
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> 2) Do you have a policy on removing lids? It seems like every  
> recording project, every duo-piano performance, every large  
> ensemble performance requires the lid to be removed. There is also  
> a history of damage being done while removing and replacing grand  
> piano lids.
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> Sure would like to know what various schools do. Thanks.
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> Kent Swafford
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