Hello, all Something has been bothering me about this. Wouldn't the center of gravity on a piano mounted on a flipped truck be quite a bit higher, making the whole thing less stable - if force is applied at the wrong place in the wrong direction? Granted, a tripod (which is what we have here) is inherently the most stable configuration, but suppose sufficient upward force were for some reason applied at one of the legs - wouldn't it be possible for the whole thing to tip over along the line formed by the other two legs - given such a high center of gravity? Now I know that this is not likely, but we have here a bunch of ignoramuses doing unpredictable things with a piano... Just musing while trying to postpone real work... Israel Stein Tuesday, July 7, 2009 8:56:23 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific phil at emvkeys.ca wrote: >Please allow me to speak from actual experience. >In the event of an accident causing damage or injury, an investigation >will be reveal that certain parties intentionally and deliberatly >employed the equipment in a manner not specifically intended by the >maufacturer. This potentially puts the insurance company in a good >position to refuse any damage or injury claim and further, it >potentially transfers liability to every individual who failed to do due >diligence toward preventing the accident. The whole schmozzle will be >decided by a magistrate who knows nothing about pianos, trucks or >risers. DAMHIK Phil Greg Newell wrote: > OK, everyone has had their say on this and followed the crowd of the nay > sayers. While I certainly wouldn't recommend it simply from the standpoint > of the piano being too high in the air I don't see the inherent difficulty > with the tripod truck being turned upside down. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090707/b4206050/attachment.htm>
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