This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment While this piano bench thread is active, let me tell you about our practice room piano benches. We purchased new Baldwin Studio pianos for our practice rooms-please, no comments about the quality of the pianos-about 5 years ago and year before last the custodian for our building started bringing broken benches into my shop. I do check the tightness of the bolts on a regular basis-snug, but not too tight--but the students began bending the bracket that the leg screw tightens on. After about 3 had shown up in the shop, the Chair asked me to look into purchasing new benches to replace them. I suggested benches with stretchers on them-they were about twice the cost of the regular type of benches. When they came in I took a look at the stretchers and thought, "I can do that to the broken benches here in my shop." Sure enough, I designed one, used very dense wood from Africa, some good wood screws and glue and went to work. It worked so well, my work study students ended up retrofitting stretchers on all the practice room pianos. They have held up beautifully, and no custodian meeting me at the door holding a bench with a crooked leg! =20 Now I'm sure all of you old heads do this all the time, but it was an idea that paid dividends and saved the Department several thousand dollars in new bench costs! No, I didn't get the surplus as check bonus! =20 Joy! Elwood =20 Elwood Doss, Jr. M.M.E.; RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/a3/9d/43/4a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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