[CAUT] Restricting piano movement

[David Ilvedson]

That seems the most logical thing to do and we do the same...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: reggaepass at aol.com
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 1/29/2010 12:10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Restricting piano movement


>Same here.


>Alan Eder





>-----Original Message-----
>From: Porritt, David <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
>To: caut at ptg.org <caut at ptg.org>
>Sent: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 11:05 am
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Restricting piano movement



>Doug:
> 
>Classroom pianos, in particular,will be moved regardless of your “rules”.  We 
>decided that any piano in ait-will-move-no-matter-what-we-say we put on stage 
>trucks.  Before that we hadlegs break.  Now we don’t.
> 
>dp
> 

>David M. Porritt, RPT
>dporritt at smu.edu

> 

>From:caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of 
>DouglasWood
>Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:18 PM
>To: College and University Technicians
>Subject: [CAUT] Restricting piano movement

> 
>Query: we have a few pianos that need to be able to be movedwithin classrooms, 
>but we would like to restrict the movement so as not toblock other uses of the room 
>or damage screens, etc.

> 

>We tried caster cups. As you can imagine, the pianos wereoff them in short order, I 
>suspect because NO movement was intolerable by some.

> 

>Ideas, anyone?

> 

>Doug

> 

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>Doug Wood

>Piano Technician

>School of Music

>University of Washington

>dew2 at uw.edu

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