Hi Gerry, I don't really have a set procedure. However it is an excellent time to work on the concert instruments. Our smallest recital hall is also a classroom. It houses a Steinway D and a Benn harpsichord...both of which are slated for some substantial work this summer. During the school year, that room is nearly impossible to get more than an hour here and and hour there to do anything but a quicky tuning for that evenings recitals. A big bummer is that our elevator will not hold a 9' grand and even if it did, there are new lockers in the basement which would cancel any chance of getting it into the shop!!. Summer is also a good time for practice room regulating or hammer replacement, key bushing jobs, etc. It does happen, though, were I just lock up one room where a piano is having bigger problems and get it down to the shop. In late July or August, I run through tunings and cleaning of all the classrooms, faculty, and GTA pianos so that I'm finished with that when school starts in the fall. Then, I get the concert instruments really concert "ready" as performances don't start for a few weeks into the semester. That's about it. It's nice and quiet and I can pretty much work on whatever I feel like on a day to day basis,...AND I get my weekends and evenings off! :>) Ahhhh, summertime! Best, Paul T. Williams RPT Piano Technician University of Nebraska Lincoln G Cousins <cousins_gerry at msn.com> Sent by: caut-bounces at ptg.org 04/28/2009 09:40 AM Please respond to caut at ptg.org To CAUT <caut at ptg.org> cc Subject [CAUT] summer procedures Does anyone have, or wish to share, thoughts on summer servicing procedures? Priortizing. Servicing levels, Regulating, Tuning, Cleaning, Cabinet repairs etc. Maybe in the archives but one of the plebes inquired to see my tick list for summer instrument servicing procedures for the inventory. Perhaps if there's nothing available, I can consolidate into one practical doc for all. Much appreciated, Gerry Gerry Cousins,RPT Lead Instrument Technician West Chester University of PA gcousins at wcupa.edu is est quinque alicubi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090428/b396ebea/attachment-0001.html>
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