[CAUT] Cleaning Grand Covers

[Susan Kline]

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At 04:03 PM 11/18/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>How about always positioning the Baldwin keyboard stage right and the 
>rails won't show?
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>David I.

It's true that they wouldn't show --however, the new piano is the apple of 
their eye, and pianists are often taking the lid on and off themselves. 
(Several two-piano teacher teams in town.)  They usually manage to gouge 
the case near the hinges at least some of the time. The Baldwin case is 
already pretty beat up, so we decided that the Steinway lid would stay put, 
and it could face the normal way, showing its fancy brass Steinway logo ...

Susan


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>From: Susan Kline 
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>To: College and University Technicians 
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>Received: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:07:02 -0800
>Subject: RE: [CAUT] Cleaning Grand Covers
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>At 01:15 PM 11/18/2004 -0700, Jim wrote:
>>I m not kidding, really. Only our trained stage managers or the 
>>technicians remove the covers (or move the pianos) and we have a special 
>>place for the covers. Pianos are kept in a piano garage. (I m talking 
>>about the concert instruments, of course.) Are we the only ones who do it 
>>this way?
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>Newport Arts Center in Oregon just bought a new Steinway D. They had been 
>really careless about bashing pianos, and their old concert grand just had 
>a big oversized unfitted quilt laid over it. Abruptly, they changed their 
>ways, and incipient trends toward piano-police-hood began to appear in 
>several of them. They are buying fitted covers for ALL their other pianos 
>(the 9 foot Baldwin, the 6 foot Baldwin, and three uprights.) But what 
>really amazed me was that (all by themselves) they bought a nice new 
>(tall) bin on wheels to hold the Steinway cover when it is off of the 
>piano, and they put a big fat label on the lid of the bin. "PIANO COVER 
>STORAGE" And they have been using it.
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>I would never have predicted this.
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>The empty bin fits in the piano garage right along with the piano and the 
>artists bench.
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>Now, a question -- their SD-10 now gets to leave its lid in its own room, 
>and gets to share the stage with the new D for two piano concerts. It has 
>two rails along the straight side, no doubt for protecting the lid when it 
>has to be tilted for moving. They are offended by the sight of these 
>rails. It's not likely to be moved on its side in the foreseeable future. 
>Shall I try to get them to just let me sand and repaint the rails to make 
>them look better (which will probably not be enough cosmetic improvement 
>to satisfy them), or would it be reasonable to rout them down so they 
>aren't as apparent onstage? They've been there all along, of course, but 
>the piano has never turned that side to the audience till now.
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>Susan Kline
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