This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wow! Since Kawai's are pretty high tension scales, I can't= imagine how many strings get broken with that kind of use! Mind= you, I like Kawais, but that combination of piano and use! 9 of our 10 piano major practice rooms have Steinway "L"s or= "M"s. The other one is an older Baldwin. All of them get= frequent broken strings. I probably replace 5 to 8 a week. I'd like to tune them at least once a month too, but I wonder= what I'd have to neglect to do it. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Avery Todd <atodd@UH.EDU> To: <dm.porritt@verizon.net>, College and University Technicians= <caut@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:39:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Practice room grands Dave, If I had my "druthers", I'd like to tune them at least once a= month! With the kind of music so many of the kids play (Prokofiev, etc.) and the= numbers of hours they're in heavy use, ours need that. Probably more. The problem we have here is that those piano major rooms (9 of= the 10) have 'lease' Kawais and are changed out every year, so it takes a bit= to start getting even a little stability. Avery At 09:28 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: The grand pianos in practice rooms, the ones reserved for the= piano performance majors, how often do you tune these? Do you= have a schedule? How do you determine that? I have these pianos listed in my inventory as 6x per year and I= don't feel that this is enough. Comments? dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ______________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/7d/dd/af/55/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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