[CAUT] Locking piano cover

[Alan Crane]

We have some of these here at WSU also and like them a lot.
They aren't cheap but the money is very well spent!

If you cross the cables as they run under the piano toward the padlock at the tail end, you can get a slightly tighter 
fit that is a bit more resistant to inventive students trying to pull one corner up and across the piano to gain access 
(or you can cut the cable a bit shorter, but then you're stuck with that length).

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Regards,

Alan B. Crane, RPT
School of Music
Wichita State University
alan.crane at wichita.edu
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On Thursday 21 October 2010 16:09:00 Gordon wrote:
> Instrument Covers by Jill, (google that) made us a heavy padded cover for a
> Baldwin D Grand with a vinyl coated steel cable.  The cable runs through
> two grommets in the hem below the keybed and runs straight back to the
> tail leg.  The tail end of the cover has a heavy padded tongue that
> protects the tail leg.  And the two ends of the cable are looped and
> covered with a heat shrink plastic.    A padlock at the tail leg secures
> the whole thing.  (They even included the padlock).
> 
>  It wasn't cheap ($600.00) but the school had just spent $40K on a rebuild,
> so they really wanted to protect it.
> 
>  Gordon Large, RPT
>  (Colby College, Waterville, ME)
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Aaron Bousel <abousel at comcast.net>
>  To: caut at ptg.org
>  Sent: Thu, Oct 21, 2010 4:52 pm
>  Subject: [CAUT] Locking piano cover
> 
> 
>  I've been asked about getting a piano cover that can be locked. Does
> anyone have any experience with this? I'm not talking about a fallboard
> lock. This is for a S&S B that is sometimes used for "low level" recitals
> and lives in a room that is typically not locked.
> 
>  thanks,
>  Aaron
> 
> 
>  ------------------------------------------
>  Aaron Bousel
>  Registered Piano Technician, Piano Technicians Guild
>   abousel at comcast.net