[CAUT] Benches

[Porritt, David]

The chains have worked well.  One professor who has an extra tall artist bench had his moved out a couple of times so he asked me to chain his to his piano.  He’s had no further problems!

I visited down at Baylor 20+ years ago back when Danny Boone was there.  He had all the practice room benches chained to the pianos.  That’s where I got the idea.

I have just ordered a really nice (and expensive) artist bench from Jansen for our larger recital hall.  This bench is a gas tube adjustable bench but looks like the traditional crank benches.  Jansen doesn’t even have them in their catalog though they have been available quite a while.  I fear that this bench will move around a lot too.

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams
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Chained??  I don't think our faculty would go for that.  We're having wandering bench problem as well.  When I started here, every grand practice room had adjustable benches plus a regular bench.  Now...7 adjustables are gone.  All have 2 benches still. They didn't go to an upright room, nor did they go to GTA rooms.  Go figgur.    Hey...gorilla glue them to the floor, then push the piano in or out to your liking ;>) ha ha

Paul

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10/02/2009 08:55 AM

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[CAUT] Benches


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Does anyone have any great hints on how to keep benches where they belong?  In our piano major practice rooms we have an adjustable bench (Jansen Petites) and each is chained to its piano.  All 10 have remained in the rooms, no problem.  However, in our recital halls it’s not possible to chain the bench so they do wander off.  In all my years here I have not found a solution.

Any bright ideas?

dave

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David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
6101 Bishop
Dallas, TX 75275
dporritt at smu.edu

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