What I want to know is: Has anyone ever been booted out of the Guild for violating the ethics of prop sticks? Just the thought of it makes me feel dirty. But I suppose if you are wacked out on Ovaltine, which Ron apparently is, anything is possible. J Will From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Paul T Williams Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:11 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ethics of prop sticks. Similar to us at UNL. The flutists like a 2x4 about 3" wrapped in black duct-tape. they keep disappearing which is a mystery... Paul From: "Elwood Doss" <edoss at utm.edu> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Date: 01/09/2010 02:36 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ethics of prop sticks. _____ At UTM we use a 3 1/2" square block of wood covered in felt. Our vocal majors like to use it. Works well for us. Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., M.Mus.Ed., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 355 Clement Hall The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman [ <mailto:rnossaman at cox.net> mailto:rnossaman at cox.net] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 11:06 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Ethics of prop sticks. George F Emerson wrote: > I once designed a stick with a stop .... or should I call it a prop with > a stop Either way sound goofy enough for my granddaughter to have come > up with it. I have to confess that I did it "all by myself," which my > granddaughter is also fond of saying. Anyway, the stop prevented the > stick (prop) from coming outward further than its cup. I've seen various prop designs like this. The Knabe I mentioned, for instance. I think it's a good idea. Mechanical stops always work better than education, and are usually harder (but not impossible) to bypass. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100109/920a15a4/attachment.htm>
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