"Spider Lyre"

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Ron,

Back in my days as a piano mover I faced one of these.  It was a Baldwin, but 
it was the same idea.  I remember facing the same dilemma:  how does one 
remove the screws to dissassemble the danged thing when they're on the bottom 
side?  As I recall, we just bit the bullet, and hired two more guys to come 
out and lift the entire piano up and onto the board without putting any 
stress on the left leg, then taking the whole thing apart from there.  

If the lyre is sturdy enough, you could put a padded prop under it that's 
high enough to allow you to access the bracket screws on the leg, and 
possibly even on the lyre side.  I almost always used the lyre in tipping the 
piano onto the board, unless it was extremely wimpy.  

Dave Stahl

In a message dated 3/22/03 10:02:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, rrg@unlv.edu 
writes:


> Looking for some input on proper set up/break down of a piano with a "spider 
> lyre".  Okay, first things first: This is my name for it and not 
> necessarily the official nomenclature.  I borrowed it from the "spider 
> dolly" concept.
>  
> What I'm talking about here is a Chickering quarter grand with double legs. 
>  The a lyre is connected to each double leg in the middle with long 
> extensions.  Basically a "Y" type arrangement with all three legs tied 
> together with the lyre as the mid point.  The question is what is the 
> normal procedure for striking and setting one of these?  The connections 
> are attached via screws on the BOTTOM side, thus you can not access them 
> with the piano set up.  This means that this has to be done while the piano 
> is on it's side.  The bass side leg would have to be attached which is not 
> possible when tipping a grand.  The section that goes to the tail leg is a 
> separate piece that also screws from the bottom.  When it is all assembled 
> it looks very stylish but there must be an official procedure for this 
> arrangement.  Can anyone shed some light on this?
>  
> 



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