John, all I can do is commiserate with you. We have exactly the same problem, and we've had it for years: practice rooms filled with brand new Kawais (and now Yamahas), both uprights and grands, and the students treat them like dirt. We've tried the no food & drink signs to no avail, and the students also put their instrument cases and everything else on top of the pianos, dragging them across the finish, putting deep scratches on the lids, etc. I think the problem with the students must be universal and betrays a basic lack of respect for what they perceive as the property of others. Fortunately, the dealers in this area seem to expect this type of abuse to their instruments, so when they come in at the end of the year to sell off the pianos (we have them on a one-year loan), they send a touch-up person in to get everything looking good again. If anyone out there has a solution that really works, I'd love to hear about it too. On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, John Minor wrote: > > I need suggestions on what to do with students who place > drinks on top of pianos! We have 15 or so new Yamaha verticals in > practice rooms, and students seem to treat them like they are the > same old junk we replaced! > There ARE new signs posted in most of the rooms stating no smoking > or drinking, etc. I HATE asking people to remove their drinks from the > pianos, especially the graduate students who should know better!!!!!! > Any comments are welcome! > > John Minor > University of Illinois > jminor@uiuc.edu >
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