Is it more expensive than the Italian model I recommended you? Marcel ________________________________ > From: dporritt at mail.smu.edu > To: caut at ptg.org > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:14:37 -0500 > Subject: [CAUT] Artist Bench > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We > got a new artist bench for our larger recital hall today. It’s a > bench that I didn’t know existed until a few days ago. Jansen makes > a traditional looking pneumatic tube controlled bench. It looks exactly > like their regular ones except instead of having two knobs it has one lever. > > > > > > > > It > (as you would expect from Jansen) is very well designed and when you pull the > lever it doesn’t go down with a “thunk” like your pneumatic > tube office chair. It descends slowly, stops securely with no bounce or > further sag. I’m really pleased and impressed. The only > negative (if it is one) is that it is spendy! That’s why they don’t > have it listed in their catalog or on line. You have to know to ask for > it. > > > > > > > > Our > pianists who have been to Europe and seen some of the benches there have been > asking about one. When they sit down to play a 60 – 70 minute > recital, the last thing they want to do is wear out their hands and arms > cranking on an artist bench. This solves that very nicely. It’s > faster, and not tiring. > > > > > > > > Can > you tell? I’m really happy with it. > > > > > > > > dave > > > > _________________________ > > David M. Porritt, RPT > > Meadows School of the Arts > > > > 6101 > Bishop Blvd. > > Southern Methodist University > > Dallas, TX 75275 > > dporritt at smu.edu > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Rapide : accédez à Messenger par le nouveau MSN! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677416
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