<font color='black' size='2' face='Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif'><font size="2">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. </font> <div><font size="2">     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. </font> <div><font size="2"><br> </font><br> <div style="font-size: 13px; clear: both; "><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">Ed Foote RPT<br> http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</font></div> <br>  <br> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial; color: black; "><br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_207358f4-014d-45c2-a30e-f7b44da78f05"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> <div>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.)<br> <br> Thumpe</div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="_origMsg_"> <div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif:font-size:10pt"> <br> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma"> <hr size="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span> </b> Terry Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>>; <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold:">To:</span> </b> <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>; <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span> </b> Re: [pianotech] Finally, <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span> </b> Wed, Feb 27, 2013 2:58:39 AM <br> </font> <br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Too yucky? <div><br> </div> <div>TF</div> <div><br> <div> <div>On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"> <div>Well, I never have..... because I don't put anything on the floor.<br> <br> Thumpe<br> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="_origMsg_"> <div style="font-family:arial, helvetica,;"> <br> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma"> <hr size="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span> </b> Susan Kline <<a rel="nofollow">skline@peak.org</a>>; <br> <b> <span style="">To:</span> </b> <<a rel="nofollow">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>; <br> <b> <span style="">Subject:</span> </b> Re: [pianotech] Finally, <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span> </b> Wed, Feb 27, 2013 12:43:09 AM <br> </font> <br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Wim, great minds obviously were thinking alike ... <br> <br> And while still a student in Toronto, I managed to tip an open punching box off the top of <br> an upright onto a practice room floor. It had been full. <br> <br> You know, that was not as bad as it first looked. I tucked right into it, and everything was <br> back to normal in twenty minutes. <br> <br> Susan<br> </font><br> <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <div><font style="background-color:transparent;" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, but have ever dropped a fully loaded punching box on the front lawn of a customer's home.? You can't just sweep those suckers up. </font></div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> <div style="clear:both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica;font-size:10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Ed Foote <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><a440a@aol.com></a><br> To: pianotech <a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><pianotech@ptg.org></a><br> Sent: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 2:16 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] Finally,<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_6eb1b5b9-17ef-4713-878d-f9ddddffa15e"> <font color="black" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size="2"><font size="2">Greetings,</font> <div><font size="2">   It occurred to me, this afternoon, that there are probably piano technicians out there that have gone, say, 35 years and never stepped on the edge of a fully loaded punching box in a customer's home...</font></div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> <div style="clear:both;font-size:13px;"><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">Ed Foote RPT<br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html">http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</a></font></div> <br>  </div> </font> </div> </div> </font> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> <br> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div> </font>