<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Dave,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wow. That is a lot of broken strings! Are those hammers rock hard or have you = spent time softening them? How the heck do you get anything else done around there = after replacing all the strings?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan McCoy</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #800000 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: = caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of David M. Porritt Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:58 = AM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: Practice room = grands </DIV> Wow!  Since Kawai's are pretty = high tension scales, I can't imagine how many strings get broken with that kind of use!  Mind you, I like Kawais, but that combination of piano and use!  9 of our 10 piano major practice rooms have Steinway = "L"s or "M"s.  The other one is an older Baldwin.  All of them get = frequent broken strings.  I probably replace 5 to 8 a week. I'd like to tune them at least once a month too, but I = wonder what I'd have to neglect to do it. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275   ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Avery Todd = <<A href="mailto:atodd@UH.EDU">atodd@UH.EDU</A>> To: <<A href="mailto:dm.porritt@verizon.net">dm.porritt@verizon.net</A>>, = College and University Technicians <<A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>> Received: Wed, 17 = Sep 2003 09:39:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Practice room grands Dave, If I had my = "druthers", I'd like to tune them at least once a month! With the kind of music so many = of the kids play (Prokofiev, etc.) and the numbers of hours they're in = heavy use, ours need that. Probably more. The problem we have here is = that those piano major rooms (9 of the 10) have 'lease' Kawais and are = changed out every year, so it takes a bit to start getting even a little stability. Avery At 09:28 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">The grand pianos in = practice rooms, the ones reserved for the piano performance majors, how often = do you tune these?  Do you have a schedule?  How do you determine = that?   I have these pianos listed in my = inventory as 6x per year and I don't feel that this is = enough.   Comments?   dave <= BR>__________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern = Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275    </BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP> </X-SIGSEP>______________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores = School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>