[pianotech] Flippin a Truck

[Ron Nossaman]

Matthew Todd wrote:
> Greetings,
>  
> There is a church with a 7'0'' Baldwin.  It is currently sitting on a 
> truck in the front of the sanctuary.  There is no room to put it on the 
> stage, so it is sitting in front of the stage on the main floor.  Some 
> men in the church are deciding to take the truck and flip it over, so 
> the piano will sit taller.
>  
> The music minister does not like that idea and has volunteered to build 
> a platform for the piano instead, but others like the idea of flipping 
> the truck, so the piano will gain approx. 8''.
>  
> Knowing that the trucks are not designed to use upside down, has this 
> been done before, successfully??

Structurally, the truck would take it fine. You'd likely just 
flip the inserts (casters, and leg socket), rather than the 
whole truck, but then what? I'm not surprised the music 
minister doesn't like the idea, nor would anyone else who had 
to play the thing on stilts. So it's not likely structurally 
hazardous, but not the functionally brightest idea ever had 
either.

Resist,
Ron N