This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hey Wim, We stencil "UTM Music" in bold letters and white spray paint on all of = our stands. Even if the face of the stand is painted black, the outline = of the letters shows through. I'm really not sure how many we lose each = year--very few if any, I would surmise, although our stands are pretty = old. Many of them were so rusty and scratched up that I used one of my = work-study students to paint them black. Don't last real long, but do = improve the overall looks of the stands. Besides I had nearly a gallon = of black paint that was going to go to waste. Might as well use it up! Keeping the stands in their assigned location would be no small task. I = would say there would be a certain amount of loss, considering human = nature, and today's morals. I don't think having students purchase = their own stands and carry them around would never work. Instead of = purchasing a personal stand, the'd just "borrow" one from the band room, = concert hall or choral room. Here's an idea that we use here: Our women's professional fraternity, = Sigma Alpha Iota, purchased some stands for the practice rooms--they are = bright red with "SAI" and some flowers and birds stenciled on them. = Nobody would be caught dead carrying one of those out of the building. = It would be a good project for Phi Mu Alpha too, for that matter. Kindest personal regards! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731-881-1852 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@aol.com=20 To: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: [CAUT] Stands. slightly OT This is a little off topic. It has to do with music stands. It seems = music stands are disappearing from the school. We are buying new ones = constantly to keep up. So our chair wants to ear mark stands for use = only in the band room, the concert hall and the choral room. He doesn't = want stands to be taken out of these places. He wants to make students = buy stands at the bookstore to be used in practice rooms and in other = class rooms when they practice in there with small ensembles. Some of = the teachers are saying this will not work. My complaint was that who is = going to be in charge of putting stands back when they are taken out of = the band room, etc.=20 I am sure other schools have problems similar to this. Any = suggestions? Wim=20 Willem Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician School of Music University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL USA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/4b/f7/81/af/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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