It is conceivable that a performer might refuse to sign off on a "condition as received" checklist. The institution would have to be ready to support the policy and say "O.K., your performance will be cancelled." Presenting venues may not have the pancakes to actually enforce this. Were that to be the case, how about making the checklist a requirement for using a preferred instrument, and if they refuse to sign, make an out-to-pasture beater "available" to them? That way the venue doesn't have to worry about getting a rep for being difficult, and the choice of pianos is determined by the performers readiness (or lack thereof) to treat an instrument properly. Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 11:44 am Subject: Re: [CAUT] Keith Kirchoff I have the responsibility of renting a meeting space which is offered at cost to civic and religious groups. The contract states "Building must be left in the same condition in which it was found." This has worked fine with almost everyone...almost. So now we are working on a checklist to note precisely the condition of the building before and after it is used. I wonder if something like this could be written to establish the condition of an instrument, such as Jim's Hamburg D. It is conceivable that a performer might refuse to sign off on a "condition as received" checklist. The institution would have to be ready to support the policy and say "O.K., your performance will be cancelled." Ed S. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100322/c52f76d0/attachment.htm>
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