Alan, Don’t worry, I was able to see what an organized and efficient shop space you have even though it was exploded out into adjoining rooms and the hall. Thanks for the tour! An organized and clean work-space will promote efficient and quality work and now, due to seeing your gleaming floor and walls, I feel shamed into doing a thorough cleaning here. The photos are a great idea as well! I’d also like to encourage everyone to take advantage of any opportunity to visit other institutions to see how things are done there and investigate other technician’s situations. There is always something to be learned which will benefit you, improve the quality of your work and perhaps make life a little bit easier. Thanks again, Alan! Eric Eric Wolfley, RPT Director of Piano Services College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of reggaepass at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:40 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Shop clean-up List, There are many things that we do (or ought to do) out of consideration for our health. As we become better informed--and older--the list of what we can in our work to, shall we say, "Reduce the rate of decay" of our bodies grows longer. In addition to dust masks and goggles, hearing protection and key beaters and the like, there is one very low-tech thing you can do to make your work environment a healthier place to be: Give the shop a thorough cleaning every year or two! Eric Wolfley, Director of Piano Services at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, visited my digs at CalArts last week. I warned him that we were in the midst of a multiple day piano shop clean-up. First, we remove everything that makes a footprint in the shop and is not bolted down, storing these items in a secure room that we have reserved for at least two days. Next, we clean off each exposed shelf (i. e., not inside cabinets), taking the items from the shelf outside of the shop to blow them off with compressed air. At the same time, tops of light fixtures and cabinets--basically, any horizontal surface that can catch dust--also gets cleaned. The floor gets cleaned and waxed (in this case, linoleum) by the custodial crew overnight. Then we reload the shop, blowing off everything before it returns to our hallowed space, down to the scrap wood. Having done this most years for some time now, I have refined the process by organizing the shop FIRST and then taking both marco and micro digital images of how things are to be put back. Print out 8 1/2 x 11 on cheap paper and hand the appropriate prints to whomever is working a particular area. This is much quicker and more accurate than answering, "Where do you want this?" umpteen times over. Oh yea, you might want to make a pact with yourself to be sure to not let everything back in the shop that came out. If you are anywhere close to being pack-rat that I am, this may prove to be a bit traumatic. But in its own way, it is just as healthy as getting rid of all that dust. Poor Eric, he had to use his imagination (aided by our photo gallery) to be able to picture our shop in all of its functional glory. FWIW, Alan Eder California Institute of the Arts ________________________________ Get the Moviefone Toolbar <http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011> . Showtimes, theaters, movie news, & more! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080702/d3d511a7/attachment.html
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