Why Universities are shy about placing little printed reminders about how to treat a piano in the practice rooms is a mystery to me! "Political Correctness", I suppose...... But anyone who would be offended by a reminder to WASH THEIR HANDS before playing a piano, and to NOT EAT while playing is an ignorant jackass who DESERVES to be offended !!!!! ( And should be in Kindergarten, not a University! ) Thump --- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> wrote: > Dave Nereson wrote: > > >- > > > > Many schools now require signing up for pianos > and practice room times, > >and even have hotel-type magnetic cards to open the > doors. That way you can > >see who was in there last and possibly find the > guilty party. > > > > > This is one of the options being looked into now. > We've had signs up > appealing to folks common sense for a couple years > now, and everyone > knows what to expect from me if I come walking in > and find coffee or > cola or the like on the pianos. > > > Yeah, I would overstate the damage and print up > handouts about how to > >treat pianos and have them distributed to all the > music dept. classes. > > > > > I suppose you read David I. post. I want to make > sure and keep myself > within the borders of what real damage can > potentially (reasonably) occur. > > > If the problem persists, have the nice pianos > taken out and old beater > >uprights > >and cheap spinets put in instead! > > > > > > Grin... I suppose I could just let them ruin these > and then we'd save on > moving costs. > > > --David Nereson, RPT > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > RicB > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash
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