One-man piano move?

Greg Newell gnewell@ameritech.net
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:43:06 -0400


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Mark,
         Center of gravity and all considered, I'm with you. I don't see 
how this would be possible. By the time that the piano was long enough to 
be a good enough balance in the curve it would be too darned heavy for one man.

Greg Newell


At 12:38 PM 7/10/2002, you wrote:
>In the book The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T E Carhart, the author 
>describes a "baby" grand being moved up a flight of stairs and into his 
>Paris apartment by a piano mover who strapped the piano across his back, 
>with the curve resting on his shoulder.  I'd have dismissed this passage 
>as the meanderings of a clouded and uninformed mind if the author wasn't 
>so accurate in virtually every other technical aspect of the piano.  Has 
>anyone ever heard of such a thing?
>
>
>
>Mark Wisner
>Yamaha Corporation
><mailto:mwisner@yamaha.com>mwisner@yamaha.com

Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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