[CAUT] Thumbtacks in hammers!

[michelle stranges]

How did these folks get into the action like that??

:(

Michelle

--On Wednesday, October 6, 2004 10:55 AM -0500 John Minor <jminor@uiuc.edu> 
wrote:

> Well, it finally happened. Every university technician fears
> that one day the following will happen in their school:
>
> A recently rebuilt Steinway B was used for a performance of
> Stravinsky's RAGTIME. The piece calls for cymbalum so, in it's
> place a piano had thumb tacks pushed into the hammer felt to
> imitate the sound. This was for a NEW MUSIC performance here
> at the University of Illinois.
>
> I wrote a nice email to the performing arts center director
> where the atrocity was committed and informed them the hammers
> would need to be replaced at a cost of $400 for the parts.
> Unfortunately, I failed to mention the 30 or so hours it could
> take to bore and hang the new set!
>
> The department directors spoke and the offenders were
> supposedly "spoken to" about the matter. Personally I'd rather
> have had the chance to talk to people face to face and ask,
> "What were you thinking?" There seems to be an attitude of
> "I'll do anything I darn well feel like doing" among many in
> our music department. Is that an isolated attitude?
>
>
> John Minor
> University of Illinois
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