[CAUT] :( Greetings from friendly neighborhood upstate NewYorkIgloo

[Ed Sutton]

 Don-

 It's just a sheet of thin plastic, like a drop cloth.  It happens to be
just the right size and texture to drape over the lid and front of the
plate, and folds up neatly to fit in your tool kit.  You don't attach it or
stretch it, or anything complicated, just lay it over the front end of the
piano like a blanket or drop cloth.  A blanket would do the trick, but this
is thin, transparent and light, and more flexible than a painter's drop
cloth.

 Ed

>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Don <pianotuna@yahoo.com>
> > To: <ed440@mindspring.com>; College and University Technicians
<caut@ptg.org>
> > Date: 3/2/2005 7:02:20 PM
> > Subject: RE: [CAUT] :( Greetings from friendly neighborhood upstate
NewYorkIgloo
> >
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > Any chance of a picture of this plastic device?
> >
> > At 02:45 PM 3/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Michelle-
> > >
> > >Above all, you don't want the piano's temperature to change while
you're
> > >tuning.
> > >
> > >If the temperature changes _after_ you have tuned, the piano will
(more or
> > >less) self-correct as the plate temperature equalizes.
> > >
> > >But if the temperature is changing while you're tuning, you ain't got a
> > >chance. (Such as opening a cold piano when the heat is just coming on.
> > >
> > >So......
> > >Go to the hardware store and get a "plastic storm window" - a sheet of
> > >flexible plastic shrink wrap (ask at the store if you don't know what
this
> > >is).  Open the lid flap, pull the music desk, and quickly cover the
open
> > >front end with the plastic sheet.  Move and tuck the sheet around to
get
> > >access to the section of pins you need, and reach under to move the
mutes.
> > >
> > >Close the lid as soon as you are done!
> > >
> > >Your tuning will be in tune with itself, and after the piano has
adjusted
> > >to whatever temperature change happens, it will be in tune with itself
> > >again, though not dead on to 440Hz.
> > >
> > >(Credit for this goes to Bill Clayton RPT, who tunes lots of church
pianos.)
> > >
> > >Ed Sutton
> > >
> > >
> > >> [Original Message]
> > >> From: michelle stranges <stranges@Oswego.EDU>
> > >> To: caut list <caut@ptg.org>
> > >> Date: 3/2/2005 10:16:38 AM
> > >> Subject: [CAUT] :( Greetings from friendly neighborhood upstate New
York
> > >Igloo
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Hey people..
> > >>
> > >> This may start out as a vent -and I appologize for that- but in the
end 
> > >> it'll turn out to be a question you brainiack/piano gods can answer.
> > >>
> > >> AHEM!!
> > >>
> > >> :(
> > >>
> > >> Because I work at a State school we have no money.
> > >>
> > >>   "     "   "  "  "   "     "    I   "   "   ".
> > >>
> > >>   "    we   "  "  "   "     "    we  "   "  recital hall.
> > >>
> > >> :(
> > >>
> > >> Sooooo- we have recitals in other places that take pity on us.
> > >>
> > >> (OK- I *think* I'm done venting..)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> There's a recital in a church on Friday.. and they asked me whether
or
> > >not 
> > >> I wanted the heat turned on.
> > >>
> > >> ***THEY TOLD ME THE ROOM IS 55 DEGREES***
> > >>
> > >> I am a girl.
> > >> I am *always* cold..
> > >>
> > >> Oh- uhhhhh about the piana in there..
> > >>
> > >> I have a tuning time scheduled DAY OF recital.
> > >>
> > >> They SAY they usually turn on the heat and hour before recital time.
> > >>
> > >> I am thinking they should just stick to this and I'll tune with my
darned 
> > >> coat on and whatever happens to my beautiful tuning right before the 
> > >> concert- well- at that point- frankly my dears, I don't give a damn.
> > >>
> > >> :(
> > >>
> > >> HOWEVER- the group wants to rehearse day before??..
> > >> They will want heat on- I'm sure... wouldn't YOU?
> > >>
> > >> At this point I don't CARE what they do..
> > >>
> > >> But I said to church - just leave it off completely, I'll come in and
> > >tune 
> > >> and then you can turn it on right before concert time to remove
icecubes 
> > >> from the chairs and piano strings.. well I didn't say *that*, but I 
> > >> relented to having the heat off completely until right before concert
> > >time.
> > >>
> > >> Is this the right thing?
> > >>
> > >> Should I have said- PLEASE turn it on Thursday night (for rehearsal)
and 
> > >> LEAVE IT ON for us?
> > >> (Spend all your money to make us comfy?)
> > >>
> > >> I'm thinking that the room should stay where it's been until other
human 
> > >> beings enter for a recital and have the impression that it's ALWAYS
this 
> > >> nice, warm and cozy in there.
> > >>
> > >> Poor piano.
> > >> (Moody Steinway B)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanx in advance-
> > >>
> > >> :o
> > >> Michelle
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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