[CAUT] Artist Bench

[Marcel Carey]

Is it more expensive than the Italian model I recommended you?
 
Marcel

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> From: dporritt at mail.smu.edu
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:14:37 -0500
> Subject: [CAUT] Artist Bench
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> 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.
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> (as you would expect from Jansen) is very well designed and when you pull the
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> 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
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> 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.
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> David M. Porritt, RPT
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> Meadows School of the Arts
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> Southern Methodist University
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> dporritt at smu.edu
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