[CAUT] a prepared rant

[Jim Busby]

Hey Conrad,

How about confiscating the items and putting them in your shop so said person might come in for a visit?? If no one shows up you're the proud owner of said chimes, cowbells, mixing bowls, etc.

(If they come) When they ask why you took them say " I thought someone had stolen the items from you because I thought no one in there right might would do this to a piano"... or something better, which I know you could come up with! (You may make a new friend... or, maybe not.)

Best,
Jim Busby BYU

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Conrad Hoffsommer
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:37 AM
To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net; College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] a prepared rant

Leslie Bartlett wrote:
>
> Just to be devil's adequate (some might wonder which of the words to
> accent), the organist at the church where I serve grew up playing a
> Lester Spinet.  She went on to do graduate work at Eastman.  A former
> organist grew up something worst than a Lester and also did fabulous
> work.  If a person wants music badly enough, they'll create it in their
> heads while making horrible sounds on totally inadequate POS's.


At college, the little darlin's get the opportunity to make horrible
sounds on perfectly GOOD instruments. I'm currently working on
decomposing a "composition" major's "work"".  I went in to tune a
Baldwin SF10 in a large rehearsal space and found that it had been
turned into $xx,xxx percussion accessory.

A few days ago, I'd swung through there and seen the music rack on the
floor. I put it back in the piano with a note to please keep it in the
piano when not practicing with it out.  Today, the rack was back on the
floor, the note was gone, a trap set, cowbells and brake drum were in
front of keyboard, and IN the piano sitting on bass dampers and strings
was a 4 qt stainless steel mixing bowl. In addition, lying across the
tenor section was a set of orchestral wind chimes.

Piano is now tuned, closed and covered, bowl and chimes are on the floor
and I was thaaaat close to slapping on a locking clamp with a padlock
for which only I have the key...

After working for a long time on bass dampers in an SD6 in the next room
just yesterday, I am officially PO'd and on warpath... a

time to break out my meds. (a.k.a.Jelly Bellies)

--
Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician
Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076


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