[CAUT] Artist Bench

[Andrew Anderson]

David,
Do tell!  $$$?  We could use some in the studios here where the  
benches are always going up and down to accomodate students of widely  
varying stature.

Andrew Anderson
On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Porritt, David wrote:

> 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
>
>

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