At the school here, we have set up small tables in each of the practice rooms for non-piano related items, including tools, to teach our students to respect the piano. Cheap Ikea tables cost $30, and certainly the cost far outweighs repairs to the pianos from negligence. Paul In a message dated 11/9/2009 1:06:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, custos3 at comcast.net writes: >Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:48:25 -0500 Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com> wrote: >I've found spilling of food and drink to be more of a threat, and harder to >reason with. Students are, after all, entitled to their slurpees, lattes, >and pizzas, at all times. I sometimes think about walking into a practice >room and putting my coffee cup down on someone's violin. I mean, [to be >said with incredulous outrage] where else am I supposed to put it down? >Zeno Wood >Brooklyn College Zeno, We recently had a P-22 knocked out of service by a spill here at SFSU. We informed the Director, who went ballistic (he's a violinist - not a pianist - but is very protective of the pianos). A week later the following signs went up all over the building: "No Food or Drink is Allowed in Any Practice Room at Any Time (exception: water, only on the floor) Anyone found with food or drink in a practice room, or water bottle on the piano will fail Music 150 for the semester." So now I just walk in there, point at the sign, kick them out of the room and lock it. And tell them that next time they are going to the Music Office to get flunked. So far it cut down on food and drinks in the practice rooms quite a bit. But it's only been one week... Of course, the biggest violators are the faculty - and they got read the riot act by the Director at the last faculty meeting. We'll see how much good that does... Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091109/975f32a6/attachment-0001.htm>
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