[pianotech] RE:greasy pianos

[gordon stelter]

 Thanks,D.L.!
     I often ask: "Would you consider it appropriate
to play on a $60,000 guitar with unwashed fingers?"
And everyone says "No!". But pianos are "fair game", I
guess.
     Thump
--- "D.L. Bullock" <dlbullock@att.net> wrote:
> This is a failing of their first piano teacher and
> every teacher thereafter.
> Any student who eats chicken or even chips and then
> plays any piano has NO
> respect for the piano.  University teachers should
> be telling students of
> this problem and requiring handwashing.  The worst
> case of no respect for
> the piano is the guy who puts the burned marks on
> the case where the
> cigarette burned up onto the case.  As a technician,
> I allow no person in my
> presence to put cigarette, drink, anything that
> could spill into the piano
> on a piano or organ.  If the customer is insulted, I
> tell them how much it
> costs to have the repairs done.  I suggest the drink
> go on the floor next to
> a bench leg and if they are still insulted, then
> that's their problem.
> 
> D.L. Bullock
> www.thepianoworld.com
> St. Louis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of gordon stelter
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:48 AM
> To: Open Forum for Piano Technicians
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Re: Rim Width
> 
> 
> Amen. The local University here just invested in 1.5
> million in new Steinways, and a multi-million$
> building to put them in. In almost no time the keys,
> desks, key-covers, etc. were smeared with slimy,
> stinky ooze. One fabulously talented Asian girl
> would
> take in a bucket of chicken, eat with fingers, then
> play without washing ( all Liszt's Hungarian
> Rhapsodies, one after the other!). Really greased
> 'em
> up good!
>       I'm not a staff tech at the U, but I politely
> suggested signs asking students to wash hands before
> playing, and was told that they could not do this as
> it would "offend the students" Sheesh! With such
> "manners" why are they even in college, playing on
> Steinways? Wouldn't 1st grade and Schoenhuts be more
> appropriate?
>      There is far more to being an artist than mere
> technical ability.
>      Thump
> --- Newton Hunt <nhunt@optonline.net> wrote:
> > > can wash my hands?" I do this wheteher the
> patient
> > is
> > > a new, pristine Schimmel or a filthy old
> > Wurtilizer.
> > > driving, pumping gas, handling $ etc.. is sure
> to
> > get
> > > your hands pretty slimy.
> >
> > Does it bother anyone else to see a food worker,
> > wearing gloves, handle
> > money then pick up someone's food?  Filthy lucre
> > indeed.
> >
> > Wash your hands after every tuning, after all, you
> > have no idea where
> > those fingers have been, especially in college
> > pracice rooms. :(
> >
> > 		Newton
> >
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