[CAUT] Prepared pianos

[Jim Busby]

Thanks Horace! Good advice. The digital camera is on its way up.


Best,
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Horace Greeley
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:03 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Prepared pianos


Hi,

Ditto what Fred said.

...trying to find some proactive responses that also serve to make 
the case for reasonable policies (an on-going quest), it occurs to me 
that it's much more easy now days to document this kind of 
use.  Point-and-click digital cameras would seem to be hanging around 
most shops these days (at least, we sure get plenty of shop pictures 
here)...so, when something like this comes up, it should be easy to 
take pictures and save them digitally, including as much of the 
surrounding circumstance as is reasonably reconstructable.  Over 
time, that could turn in to quite an archive of peremptory evidence 
(nasty strings on Boesies...).  The inevitable demand for "proof" 
would also require some before and after shots; but that seems like 
it might be just a general part of things now days (especially with 
newly acquired instruments).

Best.

Horace


At 03:34 PM 1/31/2011, you wrote:
>On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>>Seems to me the message ought to be "This is not your piano to
>>deface or damage on your whim", however obtusely and inoffensively
>>worded. People may indeed be unaware of the potential for damage
>>(however uncommon sense may be), but they all should have at least
>>been taught some respect for the considerably expensive property of
>>others.
>
>
>No disagreement there. What Jim said, though, is "Don't touch." That
>doesn't work with 5 year olds, nor with college students. For that
>matter, it doesn't work with me.
>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
>fssturm at unm.edu
>"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to
>shape it." Brecht