[pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings (going OT)

[Ed Foote]

Greetings,
    Actually, mechanics like it when customers blow their engines trying 
to race their cars, and painters enjoy it when the kids adorn the 
dining room walls with their crayons, (both of which qualify as 
'off-label' uses).
     It isn't my place to define what 'music' is, it is my job to repair 
pianos.   If an institution thinks it important to use their pianos for 
these sort of things, who am I to complain or try to block them?  
Let'em at it and I will send the bill for the repairs!  If the money is 
sufficient to the repair, it may be a self-correcting situation.  
Otherwise, it is another continuing source of revenue.
Regards,

Ed Foote RPT
http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:08 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass 
strings (going OT)


On 2/20/2013 3:44 PM, Terry Beckingham wrote:> As far as I am 
concerned, prepared piano pieces are not music. Anyone> wanting to use 
a prepared piano should be required to provide his/her> own instrument 
and should not be permitted to deface or damage someone> else's 
piano.When "composers" start hanging Ace Hardware on the strings of 
someone elses $100K violin and using it for a percussion instrument 
with the owner's blessing, I'll be impressed.Ron N