[CAUT] Clean-up Prepared Piano

[wimblees at aol.com]

Dennis

If this stuff is effecting the sound of the strings, shouldn't Luna Nova be held responsible for the cost of a new set of bass strings, and maybe a little extra for your time to install them? Does your school have some some sort of agreement or contract that covers things like this?

Wim


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Johnson <johnsond at stolaf.edu>
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 12:53 pm
Subject: [CAUT] Clean-up Prepared Piano


Hi-

...and please help.  Does anyone have a good suggestion for removing those white painted-on node markers from bass strings?  This week we had a visiting contemporary group (Luna Nova) who left us with 30 some painted markings all over a nice new set of Arledge bass strings. I had checked the piano after rehearsal and it was on then, so clearly this happened after the end of the day and I was gone.   I'm not as concerned about the plain wire, but not sure what to do for the bass.  Normally we have a designated piano that should be used for this kind of thing but this event happened out of my control, and I thought they would use nothing more than maybe some chalk.  I'm guessing it is probably a white liquid paper solution.  

Thanks in advance,

Dennis Johnson
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