<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=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1>We recently remodeled our Fine Arts Center completely.  My advice was actually heeded!  When they redid the practice rooms, they removed access to all windows by removing all of them!  J  As for the Professor’s rooms, the windows are way up high and cannot be opened.  Heat and A/C comes from above, but is distributed fairly evenly.  Although, the HVAC still sucks.  The RH is all over the place yet.  Some rooms are considerably better than others however---better than it used to be...  <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>We placed signs in the rooms and on the pianos stating that these instruments “ARE NOT YOURS.  They are ours.”  “Please do not place liquids of any kind on them.  Please do not eat in these rooms and do not move these pianos without permission from the music department or from the piano technician.”  That pretty much solved the vast majority of problems but, it did not eliminate the problem completely.  Pianos were still moved around and sometimes even lost on occasion.   But, for the most part, it slowed it down considerably.   <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Jer<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of tnrwim@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:19 PM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] protection form heat/cooling sources<o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p><div>In small practice rooms, unless the temperature can be controlled by a central unit, there is not much you can do, short of keeping it away from that heat source as far as possible. <o:p></o:p></div><div> <o:p></o:p></div><div>As far as keeping piano from being moved, how about an anchor?  <o:p></o:p></div><div> <o:p></o:p></div><div>Wim <o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p><div>-----Original Message----- From: Joe Wiencek <joespiano@gmail.com> To: caut <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 5:50 pm Subject: [CAUT] protection form heat/cooling sources<o:p></o:p><div id="AOLMsgPart_0_a67895eb-8a89-4491-9bc0-0fae0279bdb7"><pre style='background:white'><tt>Dear list,<o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>What type of methods have you used to protect pianos in small practice  <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>rooms from nearby heat and/or cooling sources?  And how do you keep  <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>staff and students from moving pianos across carpeted flooring where  <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>they are inevitably placed right next to windows, a/c and heaters?<o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>Thanks<o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>Joe Wiencek<o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt>New York University<o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre></div></div></div></body></html>