We got a new artist bench for our larger recital hall today. It's a bench that I didn't know existed until a few days ago. Jansen makes a traditional looking pneumatic tube controlled bench. It looks exactly like their regular ones except instead of having two knobs it has one lever. It (as you would expect from Jansen) is very well designed and when you pull the lever it doesn't go down with a "thunk" like your pneumatic tube office chair. It descends slowly, stops securely with no bounce or further sag. I'm really pleased and impressed. The only negative (if it is one) is that it is spendy! That's why they don't have it listed in their catalog or on line. You have to know to ask for it. Our pianists who have been to Europe and seen some of the benches there have been asking about one. When they sit down to play a 60 - 70 minute recital, the last thing they want to do is wear out their hands and arms cranking on an artist bench. This solves that very nicely. It's faster, and not tiring. Can you tell? I'm really happy with it. dave _________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts 6101 Bishop Blvd. Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091012/2e30b5a1/attachment.htm>
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