prepped piano HELP! (xlist)

Daniel Gurnee dgurnee@humboldt1.com
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:50:50 -0800


on 3/10/03 5:03PM, Conrad Hoffsommer at hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> It's a monday in the trenches again...
> 
> Came in to find a message from one of the piano profs.  He'd done some
> preparation to the NYC D and says he will be doing the same to the
> hamburger D before his Wednesday recital.
> 
> I found:
> -key letter designations taped to the damper heads. not a problem with the
> tape he used.
> -nodes marked on strings (plain & wound) with MASKING TAPE!
> 
> I do not like any tape at all on strings, and masking tape leaves a residue.
> 
> Since little mushroom me is not likely to dissuade him from taping, what
> tape is the least offensive (for someone hell-bent on taping) to use????
> 
> 
> Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
> Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076
> 
> - People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. -Bryan White
> 
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There is a relatively new blue masking tape that is supposed to come away
easier and in my experience leaves no apparent residue.  Available at
chandleries and paint stores.

Dan Gurnee


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