Roaming pianos(institutional)

[dpitsch]

I heard at one Music school they checked out the keys to the doors of the
practice rooms.  The next person using the room was responsible for reporting
any damage or problems, or he would be held accountable.  I believe the system
worked extremely well, keeping honest people honest and catching the vandels.

Frank Weston wrote:

> List,
>
> Like a misguided social program, that attempts to cure deficiencies in
> human nature by legislative and monetary means, all of the suggestions this
> list has provided for keeping a piano and its parts in one place are
> totally off the mark and doomed to costly failure.
>
> The problem is not the piano or its casters or how it is anchored to the
> wall, floor or structural members of the building.  The problem is people.
> The only way to solve the problem is to convince people to behave as they
> should.  Since their mothers obviously did not, stern measures are
> required.  I suggest Singapore as a model.  A dozen raps on the bare butt
> with a bamboo cane would quite probably solve the problem.  For the
> parents, administrators and politicians who contributed greatly to the
> problem in the first place, and who might protest this procedure, I suggest
> two dozen raps.
>
> I bet pianos in China stay where they're put.
>
> Frank Weston
>