How many times did your mother have to tell you, "Wash you hands before you start to play". Of course your mother just wanted to keep the mud and peanut butter off the keys but I would like to ask that question to a lot of professional musicians. Sometimes I had to clean the keyboard_before_I started to tune. Talk about grunge <shutter>. Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 03:09 PM 9/16/98 -0500, you wrote: >List, > > There was a similar discussion on the piano list a couple of years or >so ago. Discussions about all the various colds, etc. brought in by the >teachers' students and then the next student (or the teacher) catching it. > I believe the general consensus was that a lot of the teachers washed >their hands frequently and a lot also had the students wash his/her hands >before beginning the lesson. > Many also cleaned their piano keys frequently. > >Avery > >><< Are we at risk of contracting AIDS if someone who is HIV positive was >> just using the piano before us and we stab ourselves? What about >> hepatitus and other things? I know since I started washing my hands >> after each piano, I've been sick less. >> >> -Mike Jorgensen >> >> >> >> >>As far as AIDS is ocnerened, there is no risk. The aids virus cannot live >>outside the human body. As far as the other deseases, I don't know. But I >>always try to wash my hands after tuning a piano. You can see and even smell >>the germs on some of those keys. > > >___________________________ >Avery Todd, RPT >Moores School of Music >University of Houston >Houston, TX 77204-4893 >713-743-3226 >atodd@uh.edu >http://www.music.uh.edu/ > > >
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