Dave, Our practice rooms are pretty accessible but I wouldn't say the damage to these clavinovas was anything other than everyday wear and tear...Those plastic music desks just aren't made very bombproof. We have magnetic-card access only from 11PM to 7AM. The rest of the time the doos are unlocked. On a very cold day over winter break I found a homeless guy who had figured out a way to keep warm...in a practice room! He had placed a small stone in the outside door jamb of a seldom used door so he could come and go. I guess he spent a night or two there...a nice toilet down the hall, hot and cold running water... I kind of hated to run him off since it was below zero outside. Security caught him a couple of days later and gave him a nice warm place of their own to stay for a while. 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 Porritt, David Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:16 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Inventory Eric: Is your practice room pretty accessible and is the damage from "outsiders"? We did have more of that kind of damage to pianos before that area was secured with ID card access. Several years ago, we even had someone making drugs in a practice room. I think that's when the idea of securing that area started. It really has helped. I really appreciate all the real-world experience anyone has had. dave David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wolfley, Eric (wolfleel) Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:42 PM To: 'caut at ptg.org' Subject: Re: [CAUT] Inventory Hi Dave, Last time we upgraded our piano lab here we put about a dozen of the old clavinovas in the practice rooms. They seem to be useful to some people and they make much better "expensive music stands" and reed soaking stands for the instrumentalists. The plastic music desks get broken off quite often and after about a year or two broken notes begin appearing. They are not very cost-effective to fix and not nearly as durable as regular pianos. I certainly wouldn't purchase any for this purpose but they do seem somewhat useful if you can recycle them from somewhere else as we did. 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 Porritt, David Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 4:06 PM To: 'caut at ptg.org' Subject: [CAUT] Inventory Colleagues: I am going to evaluate our inventory and compare what we have with what I think we should have. We don't have any budget to make any big changes but I'm doing this to try to head us in the right direction. Without a plan nothing happens. One of the problems is that we have too many big pianos. We have more Steinway Bs than anything else and frankly they don't fit very well in small classrooms. The other problem is the practice room uprights. Our orchestral program is important here so we have lots of string, brass and wind players practicing in these little rooms and until they are getting ready for a recital, they don't need a piano. Our Associate Director and I had a conversation the other day about maybe using some electronic keyboards in some of these rooms. Have any of you any experience with having a few keyboards as part of your inventory? dave _________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University 6101 Bishop Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt at smu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090406/85cf503d/attachment-0001.html>
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