<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Curious if there is any way to trace back to find out if the policy was or was not communicated to the pianist?<o:p></o:p> Possibly the pianist has liability insurance.<o:p></o:p> I would really like to avoid a similar situation at the venue I work.<o:p></o:p> I have dealt with string pluckers at the university where I worked years ago but it has not come up here yet.<o:p></o:p> Your experience is the ultimate.<o:p></o:p> Gene<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Euphonious Thumpe Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:26 AM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">pianotech@ptg.org</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> <div> David, I agree with you 100%! And when you hear the dread words "World Premier" preceding a symphony orchestra broadcast on NPR these days, have your hand ready to turn it off, or suffer! (Many "Serious Music" composers now have the same cacophonous malevolence toward humanity as "punk rockers", apparently. Perhaps "getting back" at everyone, because, despite high grades, they couldn't get a date in High School.) Thumpe<o:p></o:p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div id="_origMsg_"> <div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=1 width="100%" align=center> </div> From: David Love <<st1:PersonName w:st="on">davidlovepianos@comcast.net</st1:PersonName>>; To: <<st1:PersonName w:st="on">pianotech@ptg.org</st1:PersonName>>; Subject: [pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 5:13:25 PM <o:p></o:p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'> Just came back to a piano that I service regularly after a prepared piano piece in which six bass strings (3 pairs of bichords) were damaged apparently by the pianist being called upon to scrape something up and down the length of the several pairs of strings.  Of course, the windings are now rattling.  The directors of this venue have issued previously a "no prepared piano" and "no reaching in" rule in order to avoid just this type of thing however it apparently fell on deaf (appropriate considering the nature of the music--ok cheap shot) ears.  Just an FYI and a bit of vent. ^%&*#$%&($)%*($)^&(#$) David Love www.davidlovepianos.com <o:p></o:p> </td> </tr> </table> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>