Hi Dave, Funny that you should mention the chains that Mr. Boone put on. They do help, but this past summer (when there was not as much activity in the practice room area) 3 or 4 of those benches just 'disappeared' and have not returned. You might be surprised at how many of those chains have nothing at the end of them. I ordered eight replacements in August, because quite a few of the Jansen Petites have broken frames. I actually have more trouble with the breakage than theft or 're-arrangement.' I've actually been pondering the construction of the Petites to see if there might be a way to "beef them up." If anyone has a good idea about how to do that, please share it. Craig Craig Waldrop, RPT Staff Piano Technician Baylor School of Music 254.710.1723 ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Porritt, David Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:28 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Benches The chains have worked well. One professor who has an extra tall artist bench had his moved out a couple of times so he asked me to chain his to his piano. He's had no further problems! I visited down at Baylor 20+ years ago back when Danny Boone was there. He had all the practice room benches chained to the pianos. That's where I got the idea. I have just ordered a really nice (and expensive) artist bench from Jansen for our larger recital hall. This bench is a gas tube adjustable bench but looks like the traditional crank benches. Jansen doesn't even have them in their catalog though they have been available quite a while. I fear that this bench will move around a lot too. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:08 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Benches Chained?? I don't think our faculty would go for that. We're having wandering bench problem as well. When I started here, every grand practice room had adjustable benches plus a regular bench. Now...7 adjustables are gone. All have 2 benches still. They didn't go to an upright room, nor did they go to GTA rooms. Go figgur. Hey...gorilla glue them to the floor, then push the piano in or out to your liking ;>) ha ha Paul From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu> To: "caut at ptg.org" <caut at ptg.org> Date: 10/02/2009 08:55 AM Subject: [CAUT] Benches ________________________________ Does anyone have any great hints on how to keep benches where they belong? In our piano major practice rooms we have an adjustable bench (Jansen Petites) and each is chained to its piano. All 10 have remained in the rooms, no problem. However, in our recital halls it's not possible to chain the bench so they do wander off. In all my years here I have not found a solution. Any bright ideas? dave _________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University 6101 Bishop Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt at smu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091002/72b4ca3a/attachment-0001.htm>
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