<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>RE: new piano scratched</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">It never ceases to amaze me how disrespectful musicians are of pianos. The walls of our recital halls are covered with black marks from the pianos being crammed against them. Scratch marks appear on the lids hours after delivery. These are from the little metal feet on the bottom of instrument cases. The faculty doing lectures in the hall use the pianos for desks and put their briefcases (with the little metal feet) and other things on top of the piano. After a while, the instruments get a patina of abuse and you get out the magic marker and quit worrying about it. I try to get the kids to visualize the piano as a brand new Porsche Carrerra their daddy just bought and think about what would happen if they put their instrument case (with the little metal feet) on top of the paint-job....</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I agree,It isn't just the students.  I have had professional musicians come in and be so disrespectful of the instruments.  When our newest D was brand spanking new, a visiting artist, a pianist, strolled right in and slammed his briefcase down right on the lid.  I asked him politely to remove it and he thought that was funny!  "Boy, don't set anything on the piano when Chris is around".  I wanted to scream!  We just paid 65 grand for that piano you moron!  Of course I said nothing.  I bet if I put my tool kit on his new car he would have something to say about it.</div> <div><br></div> <div>chris</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>-Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.  <br> -School of Music, Ohio University <br> -Athens, OH  45701          <span ></span>    <br> -mailto:purdy@ohio.edu  <br> -(740) 593-1656 office  <br> -(740) 593-1429 fax</div> </body> </html>