Go to www.ptg.org and enter a good key word (spills, spilled, coke, etc.) in the archives search box in the lower right hand corner. It comes up fairly often. On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Newhouse,Larry R. <lrn at sfcm.edu> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have not been subscribed to CAUT for many years and I apologize in > advance > if this question has already been discussed to exhaustion. We have more > than 100 pianos with approximately 88 practice rooms, classrooms and > studios. While I have had placards placed on a wall of each room stating > no > food of beverages allowed and discuss this at the beginning of each > semester > we invariably have a few spills a year on average. I haven't found away to > search for past threads on the subject. If that is possible I would > welcome > some direction. > > The most recent spill was a large volume of hot chocolate into the keys and > keybed. The only reason I found out soon afterwards was because a student > walked into the room and found it dripping from the keybed and didn't want > to be blamed (not that this action eliminates that possibility.) Of course > this was a piano on which I had recently replaced the key > bushings...Murphy's Law and all. > > We have keycards that are assigned to everyone so facilities knows who > enters a room at any given time and date but the reality is that students > hold doors open for each other and there is no way to have reliable hall > monitors on 5 floors without it costing a lot and seeming like a prison. > > One would think that musicians would think clearly and follow policies but > they are also in their 20's (although faculty has been guilty of this too > at > times.) > > The concert manager and I are trying to come up with suggestions to try and > change the culture since it is very hard to catch these accidents as they > happen. Therefore, It would be helpful for me to know how other > universities, colleges and conservatories handle this and what systems they > use, if any, to minimize the damage. > > Thanks for any input. > > Larry > > Larry Newhouse|Senior Piano Technician > > San Francisco Conservatory of Music > 50 Oak Street > San Francisco, CA 94102 > > 415 503-6282 > 415 383-7690 (home office) > lrn at sfcm.edu > > > > > > > NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY > > This e-mail message and its attachments (if any) are intended solely for > the use of the addressee hereof. In addition, this message and the > attachments (if any) may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Unless you are > the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you are > prohibited from reading, disclosing, reproducing, distributing, > disseminating or otherwise using this transmission. Delivery of this message > to any person other than the intended recipient is not intended to waive any > right or privilege. If you have received this message in error, please > promptly notify the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete this > message from your system. Thank you.” > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091202/8b333100/attachment.htm>
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