[CAUT] Piano Techs as Piano Movers?

[Jim Busby]

Brian,

 

Here at BYU we have 428 pianos and the technicians move them all the
time except if it's up/down stairs or requires loading into a vehicle.
Then we supervise the BYU moving crew that has strapping young people
with more muscle than brain. Flat moves with short distances should be
no problem with the right equipment. I showed a 21 year old female
student how to tilt and move a 7' grand by herself and supervised her
w/o touching a thing to see how she would do. No problem. (Thanks to a
"piano horse", etc.) HOWEVER, with back problems, hernias, etc. I would
allow any technician who didn't want to move to make the choice.

 

Jim Busby BYU

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Yankee
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:15 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] Piano Techs as Piano Movers?

 

Greetings.

 

I am the Director of Performance Services at New England Conservatory in
Boston. A member of our administration wants to have our Piano
Technicians (whom I supervise) move our pianos (mostly a mix of Steinway
B's, L's and M's) out of studios, into and out of the piano shop, etc.
when the need arises. We have always hired an outside piano moving
company to do all of our moves except for occasionally rolling an
upright piano down a hallway from one room to another.  

 

What prompted this is a proposal to recarpet and paint seven faculty
studios this summer. The proposal included an estimate of the cost to
hire our movers to remove the pianos from the rooms, bring them to our
piano shop for storage on their sides and then to return them to the
studios once the work is done. Needless to say, the piano moving costs
are considerable. 

 

Personally, I think it's inappropriate for piano techs to double as
piano movers, but what do I know? I need a reality check: Is this
something that piano techs at other colleges and universities do? If
not, can you give me some good arguments why they shouldn't? 

 

Thanks.

 

Brian Yankee

Director of Performance Services

New England Conservatory

 

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Brian S. Yankee 
Director of Performance Services 
New England Conservatory 
290 Huntington Ave. 
Boston, MA 02115 
Tel: 617-585-1271 
Fax: 617-585-1270 

 

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