What about potential for noise, rocking and whatnot. Is it better in those respects than the standard bench? Fred On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Porritt, David wrote: > It’s $595.00 + shipping. > > dp > > > David M. Porritt, RPT > dporritt at smu.edu > > From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf > Of Andrew Anderson > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:57 PM > To: caut at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [CAUT] Artist Bench > > David, > Do tell! $$$? We could use some in the studios here where the > benches are always going up and down to accomodate students of > widely varying stature. > > Andrew Anderson > On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Porritt, David wrote: > > > We got a new artist bench for our larger recital hall today. It’s a > bench that I didn’t know existed until a few days ago. Jansen makes > a traditional looking pneumatic tube controlled bench. It looks > exactly like their regular ones except instead of having two knobs > it has one lever. > > It (as you would expect from Jansen) is very well designed and when > you pull the lever it doesn’t go down with a “thunk” like your > pneumatic tube office chair. It descends slowly, stops securely > with no bounce or further sag. I’m really pleased and impressed. > The only negative (if it is one) is that it is spendy! That’s why > they don’t have it listed in their catalog or on line. You have to > know to ask for it. > > Our pianists who have been to Europe and seen some of the benches > there have been asking about one. When they sit down to play a 60 – > 70 minute recital, the last thing they want to do is wear out their > hands and arms cranking on an artist bench. This solves that very > nicely. It’s faster, and not tiring. > > Can you tell? I’m really happy with it. > > dave > _________________________ > David M. Porritt, RPT > Meadows School of the Arts > 6101 Bishop Blvd. > Southern Methodist University > Dallas, TX 75275 > dporritt at smu.edu > > > > Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091013/9db37e89/attachment.htm>
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