Practice room grands

[Don Mannino]

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I have found over time that on any heavily played piano, the best
solution is to keep the hammers shaped.  I know this is hard to
schedule, but it is the only answer.
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I didn't catch the original post as to what model this was.  In some
Kawai models I do like to change all of the wire in the affected area
with Roslau blue or Mapes international gold.  This combined with well
shaped hammers usually cuts way back on the string breakage, at least
until the hammers begin to get flat again.
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Don Mannino RPT
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan McCoy [mailto:amccoy@mail.ewu.edu]=20
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:54 AM
To: dm.porritt@verizon.net; College and University Technicians
Subject: RE: Practice room grands


Dave,
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Wow. That is a lot of broken strings! Are those hammers rock hard or
have you spent time softening them? How the heck do you get anything
else done around there after replacing all the strings?
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Alan McCoy

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
David M. Porritt
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:58 AM
To: caut@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Practice room grands



Wow!  Since Kawai's are pretty high tension scales, I can't imagine how
many strings get broken with that kind of use!  Mind you, I like Kawais,
but that combination of piano and use! =20

9 of our 10 piano major practice rooms have Steinway "L"s or "M"s.  The
other one is an older Baldwin.  All of them get frequent broken strings.
I probably replace 5 to 8 a week.

I'd like to tune them at least once a month too, but I wonder what I'd
have to neglect to do it.

dave


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David M. Porritt, RPT

Meadows School of the Arts

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX 75275

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From: Avery Todd <atodd@UH.EDU>
To: <dm.porritt@verizon.net>, College and University Technicians
<caut@ptg.org>
Received: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:39:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Practice room grands


Dave,=20

If I had my "druthers", I'd like to tune them at least once a month!
With the
kind of music so many of the kids play (Prokofiev, etc.) and the numbers
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hours they're in heavy use, ours need that. Probably more.=20

The problem we have here is that those piano major rooms (9 of the 10)
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'lease' Kawais and are changed out every year, so it takes a bit to
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getting even a little stability.

Avery=20

At 09:28 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:



The grand pianos in practice rooms, the ones reserved for the piano
performance majors, how often do you tune these?  Do you have a
schedule?  How do you determine that?

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I have these pianos listed in my inventory as 6x per year and I don't
feel that this is enough.

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Comments?

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dave


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David M. Porritt, RPT

Meadows School of the Arts

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX 75275

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Avery Todd, RPT
Moores School of Music
University of Houston
Houston, TX=20


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