<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'>Alan,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'>Don’t worry, I was able to see what an organized and efficient shop space you have even though it was exploded out into adjoining rooms and the hall. Thanks for the tour! An organized and clean work-space will promote efficient and quality work and now, due to seeing your gleaming floor and walls, I feel shamed into doing a thorough cleaning here. The photos are a great idea as well!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'>I’d also like to encourage everyone to take advantage of any opportunity to visit other institutions to see how things are done there and investigate other technician’s situations. There is always something to be learned which will benefit you, improve the quality of your work and perhaps make life a little bit easier.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'>Thanks again, Alan!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Informal Roman";color:red'>Eric Wolfley, RPT</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Informal Roman";color:red'>Director of Piano Services</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Informal Roman";color:red'>College-Conservatory of Music</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Informal Roman";color:red'>University of Cincinnati</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>reggaepass@aol.com<br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:40 PM<br> <b>To:</b> caut@ptg.org<br> <b>Subject:</b> [CAUT] Shop clean-up<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>List,<o:p></o:p></p> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There are many things that we do (or ought to do) out of consideration for our health.  As we become better informed--and older--the list of what we can in our work to, shall we say, "Reduce the rate of decay" of our bodies grows longer.  In addition to dust masks and goggles, hearing protection and key beaters and the like, there is one very low-tech thing you can do to make your work environment a healthier place to be: Give the shop a thorough cleaning every year or two!</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Eric Wolfley, Director of Piano Services at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, visited my digs at CalArts last week.  I warned him that we were in the midst of a multiple day piano shop clean-up.  First, we remove everything that makes a footprint in the shop and is not bolted down, storing these items in a secure room that we have reserved for at least two days.  Next, we clean off each exposed shelf (i. e., not inside cabinets), taking the items from the shelf outside of the shop to blow them off with compressed air. At the same time, tops of light fixtures and cabinets--basically, any horizontal surface that can catch dust--also gets cleaned.  The floor gets cleaned and waxed  (in this case, linoleum) by the custodial crew overnight.  Then we reload the shop, blowing off everything before it returns to our hallowed space, down to the scrap wood.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Having done this most years for some time now, I have refined the process by organizing the shop FIRST and then taking both marco and micro digital images of how things are to be put back.  Print out 8 1/2 x 11 on cheap paper and hand the appropriate prints to whomever is working a particular area.  This is much quicker and more accurate than answering, "Where do you want this?" umpteen times over.<br> <br> Oh yea, you might want to make a pact with yourself to be sure to not let everything back in the shop that came out.  If you are anywhere close to being  pack-rat that I am, this may prove to be a bit traumatic.  But in its own way, it is just as healthy as getting rid of all that dust.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> Poor Eric, he had to use his imagination (aided by our photo gallery) to be able to picture our shop in all of its functional glory.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FWIW,<br> <br> Alan Eder</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75b7c655-a431-48e1-a7f1-9f86ba5332b7"> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>California Institute of the Arts</span><o:p></o:p></p> <div id=u8CAA85FC13E3B90-9C0-5805> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </div> <div id=u8CAA9E2872A4B57-1130-23CE> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right: 0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom: 0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011" target="_blank" title="http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011">Get the Moviefone Toolbar</a>. 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