>From Sy Zabrocki Many schools and institutions build a garage to store and lock up their grand piano. It is usually a wooden cubicle with some kind of door locked with a padlock. The idea is to prevent unauthorized persons from using the piano and to prevent vandalism. That's all well and good but in many cases the piano is still damaged when shoving the piano in the garage. Custodians, students and whoever repeatedly carelessly ram the piano in hitting it on all sides. The obvious answer would be heavy padding on all sides of the shed. A heavy quilted pad over the piano would help but only if the piano was moved carefully. The casters always want to go south when you want them to go north. I worked in a school this week where the ebony piano suffered incredible damage in this situation. Maybe when I retire I'll design and build for sale the mother of all piano sheds. Sy Zabrocki
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