Fred: Well, there's no wear in this one yet! It is very quiet and less "wobbly" than the standard bench (there are fewer moving parts). The pneumatic tube is oriented almost horizontal and attached to other levers that raise and lower the bench and keep it level. I'm impressed with the engineering. [cid:image001.jpg at 01CA4BEB.A65C3920] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CA4BEB.A65C3920] David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:35 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Artist Bench What about potential for noise, rocking and whatnot. Is it better in those respects than the standard bench? Fred On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Porritt, David wrote: It's $595.00 + shipping. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org<mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org> [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Anderson Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:57 PM To: caut at ptg.org<mailto:caut at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Artist Bench David, Do tell! $$$? We could use some in the studios here where the benches are always going up and down to accomodate students of widely varying stature. Andrew Anderson On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Porritt, David wrote: 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<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu<mailto:fssturm at unm.edu> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091013/90160f12/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 25790 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091013/90160f12/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 26374 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091013/90160f12/attachment-0003.jpg>
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