[CAUT] Clean-up Prepared Piano

[Dennis Johnson]

There hasn't been enough time to quantify aural changes in the tone of these
notes, but anything that solidifies into the windings will make a
difference.  Besides, as far as I'm concerned the visual damage is upsetting
enough... and totally unacceptable.  I talked to Arledge this morning and we
came up with stuffing a towel and some plastic or whatever under the strings
to protect the board, then trying to brush it out with acetone.  Anybody
ever tried this before?  I really don't want to replace them.  There isn't
enough time as it is.

thanks,

Dennis Johnson
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:55 PM, <wimblees at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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