> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Elwood, Sounds like a great idea. How about a picture or drawing, so I can be a copycat? Ken Z --=20 Ken Zahringer, RPT Piano Technician University of Missouri School of Music 297 Fine Arts Bldg Columbia, MO 65211 573-882-1202 cell 573-489-7529 On 12/9/04 11:45 AM, "Elwood Doss" <edoss@utm.edu> wrote: > While this piano bench thread is active, let me tell you about our practi= ce > room piano benches. We purchased new Baldwin Studio pianos for our pract= ice > rooms=8Bplease, no comments about the quality of the pianos=8Babout 5 years a= go > and year before last the custodian for our building started bringing brok= en > benches into my shop. I do check the tightness of the bolts on a regular > basis=8Bsnug, 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 C= hair > asked me to look into purchasing new benches to replace them. I suggeste= d > benches with stretchers on them=8Bthey were about twice the cost of the re= gular > type of benches. When they came in I took a look at the stretchers and > thought, =B3I can do that to the broken benches here in my shop.=B2 Sure eno= ugh, > I designed one, used very dense wood from Africa, some good wood screws a= nd > glue and went to work. It worked so well, my work study students ended u= p > 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=B9m sure all of you old heads do this all the time, but it was an ide= a > that paid dividends and saved the Department several thousand dollars in = new > bench costs! No, I didn=B9t 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 >=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/42/f1/1b/d0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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