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Openwood
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| Apparently it's useful for Debussy but I've never come across an instance when I've needed to use it. Personally, I'd find it more helpful if they fitted a pencil sharpener and a mug holder.... |
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Barrie Heaton
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| Openwood wrote: | | Apparently it's useful for Debussy but I've never come across an instance when I've needed to use it. Personally, I'd find it more helpful if they fitted a pencil sharpener and a mug holder.... |
Kemble did that to their school piano and fitted a pull out bit for your laptop, it flopped so the dropped the line
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Openwood
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Kemble did that to their school piano and fitted a pull out bit for your laptop, it flopped so the dropped the line |
Anyone who sets out to build anything for a school needs to start from the premise that it's going to be kept in the same room as a family of gorillas. That's the nearest they'll ever get to simulating a real classroom environment. I wouldn't buy a school piano with anything attached to it because it will just get ripped off. That's the problem with the hinged wooden music trays you get on uprights - sooner or later they all get wrecked. Don't get me wrong, most of the time the kids don't actually mean to break things, it's just what children do. All the time. |
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Gill the Piano
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I object to that remark about gorillas; I LIKE gorillas...
Berry fitted swivel-out ashtrays and fag-holders to their uprights. Now that WOULD be useful on skool pianos, having observed the allegedly intelligent brats of the skool where I live who are working hard on knackering their lungs before they hit 16. |
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PianoGuy
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| Gill the Piano wrote: |
Berry fitted swivel-out ashtrays and fag-holders to their uprights. |
Smart Bakelite jobs which almost encouraged me to start smoking! |
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mdw
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[quote="Openwood"] | Quote: | | Don't get me wrong, most of the time the kids don't actually mean to break things, it's just what children do. All the time. |
You must live in different area of the country to me. Virtualy all the damage is see is outright vandalism and it even happens in some "nice"schools. |
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Openwood
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Virtualy all the damage is see is outright vandalism and it even happens in some "nice"schools. |
Well, yes - I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt, but you're probably right. |
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Barrie Heaton
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All Girls schools can be the worst and the boarding ones well you find all sorts stuffed in the pianos, used sanitary towels I was told one tuner he found a little boy in the bottom of a ex pianola in a practise room
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mdw
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| Looks like this is going to be the school horror thread. One of my faves was every single hammer felt peeled of the heads "cos it sounded cool". Typical one at least once a year is a hand full of hammers pulled out of the action. I now recomend a dirty great big hasp and staple with a padlock for the lids. |
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Openwood
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| When I was at school I used to play the piano for assemblies. I once opened the fallboard to discover an (unused) condom lying across the keys. I still wonder if it was meant as a comment or an invitation... |
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Gill the Piano
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| Quote: | | I now recomend a dirty great big hasp and staple with a padlock for the lids. |
I misread that as 'for the kids'. Which actually isn't that bad an idea...
Barrie; was the brat in the pianola dead or hiding?  |
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Barrie Heaton
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| Gill the Piano wrote: | | Quote: | | I now recomend a dirty great big hasp and staple with a padlock for the lids. |
I misread that as 'for the kids'. Which actually isn't that bad an idea...
Barrie; was the brat in the pianola dead or hiding? |
Nether the other kids had put him in there and put a big stool full of music in fount of the bottom door the tuner who told me said it happened in the 50s
the joys of boarding school
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Openwood
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | he found a little boy in the bottom of a ex pianola |
Full marks to the children for coming up with something useful to do with a pianola. |
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