Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:20:28 -0600 John Minor <jminor at illinois.edu> wrote; > Here is a nice solution to our harpsichord moving problems over the > years. I've installed 3 singe wheel 2" casters by Shepherd, part #9346, > on the horizontal cross members of the harpsichord stand. This > particular brand has a small flat base that fits nicely under the lower > stretcher of the stand. This was quite easy on the Phillips and Martin, > requiring only thin shims, but the Dowd required the addition of a > second stretcher to accommodate the caster. The instruments are raised > less than 1/2" off the floor, so the height does not seem to bother > anyone. These instruments can now be moved through most > doorways(carefully), as well as on and offstage, by harpsichordists > without having to put them on their sides and using a dolly. John, That's a pretty good solution - which, unfortunately, won't work for those of us in buildings with standard classroom width doors like here at San Francisco State... Neither our Dowd nor our Neupert fit through them - wheels or no wheels. So Tom Winter - who took care of the pianos here for many years before retiring to go on to fortepiano building - left us this harpsichord mover contraption: So you slide it over and then pull out the retainer dowels from both sides and tilt it to go out the door like so: And while it's nice to have two people to move a harpsichord with it it, one person can do it in a pinch. Of course you have to haul the stand separately - but that's no trouble, especially when there are student assistants available. When "off duty", the contraption lives in its own bay under one of the workbenches in the shop: It's also very useful for transporting actions to and from the shop - along with all kinds of tools and supplies down in all that space under the "tilter" thing. It also serves as a portable workbench for action work out there in the classrooms, studios and rehearsal rooms, when necessary. And when we run out of shelf space in the shop (like in the summers, when there are lots of projects going), we can store an action, a keyframe or a set of keys on it - because we really don't need to move harpsichords all that often, especially when classes are out... Israel Stein -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101121/71fdcf07/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DowdMover1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 43560 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101121/71fdcf07/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DowdMover2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 45475 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101121/71fdcf07/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DowdMover3.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 48350 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101121/71fdcf07/attachment-0005.jpg>
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