[CAUT] FW: Schimmel TA pictures

joel a. jones jajones2 at wisc.edu
Mon Nov 3 17:34:07 PST 2008


Jim.

Good Luck.   Not to spoil your euphoria, but I hope you don't have 
people
marking the dampers with masking tape labeled Eb, F#, etc.   We took our
prepared piano and with alot of effort put white paint on them.    Oh, 
well.....

Joel
Joel Jones, RPT
Madison, WI
On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:

>
> Hi Jim
>
> Looks like a great piano.. I like Schimmels..a little bright for my 
> personal taste and would need some serious down voicing for 12x12 
> practice rooms, but still.....Selling the piano faculty is always a 
> chore (and also my budget!)..the huge music desk and pre-marked 
> dampers are a great thought.  We'll see.... I wonder if the music 
> desks would fit on an old Steinway or M&H?  Preparing dampers in 
> advance on any piano might be a good time investment.  Students put 
> any and all material on the damper heads, strings, etc.  Maybe a 
> little less work for us to intercept, eh????
>
> Have any of you folks just gone ahead and marked the damper heads with 
> your markings of choice to keep really yucky stuff from getting on the 
> heads? It seems like a smart way to pre-empt a larger cleaning 
> process.  No matter what you tell them, they always mess stuff up!! 
>  It bugs me to see anything but clean damper heads, but in practice 
> rooms, maybe this might help...
>
>
> Paul
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