[pianotech] Finally,

[Ed Foote]

I don't agree. Floors are for babies learning to crawl, kids to wrestle on, and creaky techs to sit on while finishing a regulation. 
     The setting of key dip in a grand without being on the floor is too difficult to justify.  I haven't seen any downside to to procedure in many years. I usually work on a drop cloth, but I will be working on the floor as long as I can keep getting up. 



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

 





Yes. Floors are only for feet, the bottoms of toolboxes, and table and chair legs. Pianos are "high art" objects. (Even relatively crummy ones.) And the word "high" is in there for a reason! So don't debase them by getting whatever is on the floor into or on them, even though their relatively unaware owners (who may not even wash hands before playing) may. Elevate them! (Both the pianos, and their owners, by setting a "high class" example.)

Thumpe


            
                
                    
                    
                                                    
                                                            From:                                                        Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>;                            
                                                            To:                                                         <pianotech at ptg.org>;                                                                                                     
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                                                            Sent:                                                        Wed, Feb 27, 2013 2:58:39 AM                            
                                                        
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
Too yucky?


TF


On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:




Well, I never have..... because I don't put anything on the floor.

Thumpe



            
                
                    
                    
                                                    
                                                            From:                                                        Susan Kline <skline at peak.org>;                            
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                                                            Sent:                                                        Wed, Feb 27, 2013 12:43:09 AM                            
                                                        
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
Wim, great minds obviouslywere thinking alike ... 

And while still a student in Toronto, I managed to tip an open punchingbox off the top of 
an upright onto a practice room floor. It had been full. 

You know, that was not as bad as it first looked. I tucked right intoit, and everything was 
back to normal in twenty minutes. 

Susan

tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
  
No, but have ever dropped a fullyloaded punching box on the front lawn of a customer's home.? You can'tjust sweep those suckers up. 
  
 
  
Wim
  
  
 
  
  
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From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 2:16 pm
Subject: [pianotech] Finally,
  
  
  Greetings,  
   It occurred to me, this afternoon, that thereare probably piano technicians out there that have gone, say, 35 yearsand never stepped on the edge of a fully loaded punching box in acustomer's home...
  

  
  

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



                                    
                                
                            
                    
                
            
 

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