Practice room grands

[Alan McCoy]

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Dave,

Wow. That is a lot of broken strings! Are those hammers rock hard or have
you spent time softening them? How the heck do you get anything else done
around there after replacing all the strings?

Alan McCoy
  -----Original Message-----
  From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of David
M. Porritt
  Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:58 AM
  To: caut@ptg.org
  Subject: Re: Practice room grands


  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

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