[CAUT] [pianotech] Dampp chasers

[Chris Solliday]

Not to overly indulge in the rapture of cynicism to excess or anything, but
we are talking about a generation that can barely read, write or communicate
at all, trusts their most intimate thoughts and experiences to an open
computer program and for the most part are too fat to crawl under the piano
to replace wicks. And this coming to you from a barely literate, overweight
RPT.
Chris Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] [pianotech] Dampp chasers


> Chris Solliday wrote:
> > Paul,
> > What is so difficult about having a student worker, perhaps with other
> > duties as well, being trained and responsible for making sure the
> > systems are plugged in and filling them when necessary. I have three
> > college situations where this works well. I've even trained some to keep
> > the fill level up so that they don't have to wait for the lights, just
> > make their rounds. I think you could even train someone to replace pads
> > if you wanted to, although I must admit I haven't gone that far.
> > Chris Solliday
>
> Wow, that's comforting! The future of the world can be
> nominally trained to fill a water tank, but replacing
> humidifier pads is a stretch. We're obviously in good hands,
> as I've long suspected.
>
> Ron N