<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:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" 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 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, it was communicated.  A contract was signed in which a no prepared or hands on strings clause is included.  This was a group and several pianists were included so the director of the organization signed off on it.  I’m letting the venue handle collection aspects.  Fortunately, this was a relatively new set of strings and so the specs are readily available so replacement will be easy.  Still there is cost and time involved in replacement and settling of the new strings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It’s all getting handled but just thought I’d throw it out there as a precautionary note.  I’m always concerned when I hear “prepared piano” and the several concert venues I deal with have instructions that I am to be informed if there is something like that on the program so that I can have some say on whether and how it’s done.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.davidlovepianos.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gene Nelson<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Possibly the pianist has liability insurance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I would really like to avoid a similar situation at the venue I work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Your experience is the ultimate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Gene<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Euphonious Thumpe<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<br>Perhaps "getting back" at everyone, because, despite high grades, they couldn't get a date in High School.)<br><br>Thumpe<o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></table><div id="_origMsg_"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>David Love <<a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net">davidlovepianos@comcast.net</a>>; <br><b>To: </b><<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>; <br><b>Subject: </b>[pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings <br><b>Sent: </b>Tue, Feb 19, 2013 5:13:25 PM </span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Just came back to a piano that I service regularly after a prepared piano<br>piece in which six bass strings (3 pairs of bichords) were damaged<br>apparently by the pianist being called upon to scrape something up and down<br>the length of the several pairs of strings.  Of course, the windings are now<br>rattling.  <br><br>The directors of this venue have issued previously a "no prepared piano" and<br>"no reaching in" rule in order to avoid just this type of thing however it<br>apparently fell on deaf (appropriate considering the nature of the music--ok<br>cheap shot) ears.  <br><br>Just an FYI and a bit of vent.<br><br>^%&*#$%&($)%*($)^&(#$)<br><br>David Love<br><a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com">www.davidlovepianos.com</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>