John: It might seem extreme, but when we bought 28 new studio pianos for our small practice rooms, we had them delivered with no casters. They haven't moved! When one needs to be moved for some reason, the facilities office has to lift them on to a dolly, but they do stay where they are put. When we got them the dealer put on some flimsy slides under the toe blocks to keep the pianos from rocking. I'm planning later this year to replace those with something more substantial as several have broken off. Other than that, it works for keeping the pianos where we want them. On another note, we bought 10 of Jansen's Petite adjustable benches for our Grand Piano practice rooms. I chained each bench to it's piano and they too have stayed put. Before we got the adjustable benches, each room would have 2 or 3 benches "borrowed" from another room as different students wanted benches of different height. Now with the adjustable benches, we've had less of that problem too. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@mail.smu.edu ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: John Minor <jminor@uiuc.edu> To: caut <caut@ptg.org> Received: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:41:23 -0500 Subject: [CAUT] anchoring practice pianos? >Anyone have a good method for keeping practice pianos from >being moved around the building by students? We have Yamaha >LOANER P-22's that the students relocate occasionally, >prompting an "all points bulletin" to locate the missing piano. >John Minor >University of Illinois >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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