<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey Jeff,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have male work-study students = available to you, train them to rebuild the benches.  I have worked on about 10% = of the benches and my work-study students did the rest of them.  Just a thought.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joy!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Elwood</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT<BR>Piano = Technician/Technical Director<BR>Department of Music<BR>145 Fine Arts Building<BR>University = of Tennessee at Martin<BR>Martin, TN  = 38238<BR>731-881-1852</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jtanner@mozart.sc.edu = href="mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu">Jeff Tanner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 09, = 2004 11:51 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Practice = Room Piano Benches</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Elwood = Doss wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>While this piano = bench thread is active, let me tell you about our practice room piano benches.  We purchased new Baldwin Studio pianos for our = practice rooms—please, no comments about the quality of the = pianos<BR><?/smaller><?/fontfamily></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>no comments from = here -- 27 of my 61 Baldwins are 243s, and I know exactly where you're going = with this....<BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller>When they came in I = took a look at the stretchers and thought, “I can do that to the broken = benches here in my = shop.” <BR><?/smaller><?/fontfamily></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I've thought the same thing, but don't have the time to mess with it. I = have a pile of Baldwin benches in my shop now, awaiting reconstructive surgery, = some now in for their second hip = replacement.<BR><BR>Jeff</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>