[CAUT] Life for adjustable piano benches?

[Porritt, David]

Paul:

When I was at SMU most benches were "borrowed" by a student who needed it not by larcenous intent.  The problem was solved when we tied a lengths of chain from the piano to the bench.  Extreme?  Probably.  One piano faculty member who had a special high bench that students would "borrow" when they knew he was out of town but then didn't return it, asked me to chain his bench.  It stayed.

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu


From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:46 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Life for adjustable piano benches?

I must expand a bit....Our building is publicly accessible 7am until 11pm most nights. We're closed every Husker home game (for good reason...we're two blocks from the stadium!...the 3rd largest city in Nebraska on game days!)   Perhaps they're a few disgruntled tax payers who just can't quite get the Steinway M out of the practice rooms!!..........dang, Bubba, how'd they get this thang in hare anywho!?? oh what the heck...the bench'll fit outta here just fine....i bet we can get $50!

Who knows? Does this happen to you?

Paul


From:

Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu>

To:

Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com>, caut at ptg.org

Date:

11/20/2010 07:34 PM

Subject:

Re: [CAUT] Life for adjustable piano benches?


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Thanks Ed and Jon!

I'll check them out.  Wow, those benches are spendy!...even the 'cheap' ones ;>)  that's what I'm looking for. Our really nice ones are still pretty nice (except for the ones in practice rooms!!)  Somehow, a few have "disappeared" over the last couple years...go figgur.

Paul

From:

"Ed  Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>

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<caut at ptg.org>

Date:

11/14/2010 07:10 PM

Subject:

Re: [CAUT] Life for adjustable piano benches?


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Yes, call Jansen for their advice.
If it just needs new bushings, you can do it yourself for a few dollars.
ES

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage at comcast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:50 PM
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> If they are Jansen benches, they can rebuilt the mechanism.
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> Regards,
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> Jon Page


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