<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 15, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Joe Wiencek wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This is my first posting to the CAUT list.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I have two questions</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>How do you keep dampers free from damage when modern music requires playing the strings with fingers and the performers paste the damper heads with colored stickers, then remove them and tearing felt, etc. This is at NYU, but my own experience in music school tells me it must be all over.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>You insist that if anyone is doing prepared piano music, they have to use the worn out L from a practice room.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Somehow, someway, we must educate musicians that the people who wrote this stuff were not aware that it causes damage to pianos.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Only problem here is, they know my aversion to the practice and do what they want to without telling anyone, tearing up the pianos in the process.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>