[CAUT] Inexpensive institutional piano benches

[Porritt, David]

Rob:

 

Don't!  We bought 7 of them a couple of years ago.  Next week during
spring break I'm going to round all of them up and put them in our
dumpster as they are all really dangerous at the moment.  They wobble
terribly when first set up and get worse quickly.  I'm really sorry we
got them.  Since then we've put 10 of the Jansen petite benches in our
grand piano practice rooms.  They work well, stay put (since each is
chained to the piano) and have proven to be trouble free.

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Rob & Helen Goodale
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:35 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Inexpensive institutional piano benches

 

The majority of the university benches have seen better days.  Most have
been broken, glued, broken again, stripped screw holes repaired, broken
yet again, etc, etc.  The pianos aren't much better so I'm not too
excited about buying nice expensive benches for cigar boxes with rubber
bands pretending to be pianos.  My hope is that most of the pianos will
be replaced within the next few years along with new benches.  In the
meantime I would like to look into buying some inexpensive benches to
keep things going for a while.

 

The benches the supply companies offer, (Schaff, Pianotek, etc), seem
decent but I would like to try to do better budget-wise.  I haven't seen
a price list for a while but I recall seeing some inexpensive Chinese
benches a while back with quality consistent with those included with
the typical Chinese import pianos.  That may be sufficient for now.  Can
anyone tell me who is distributing these benches domestically?  I would
like to get a catalog.

 

Rob Goodale, RPT

Las Vegas, NV

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