[pianotech] flipping a truck

paul bruesch paul at bruesch.net
Fri Jul 10 16:19:35 MDT 2009


I vote for this as best idea yet...

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Scott Helms, RPT <tuner at helmsmusic.net>wrote:

> It's been so long ago that the original post was put up that I may have
> forgotten a couple of details. Are they planning to keep the big casters
> on the truck? If so, they are presumably planning to (at some point) push
> the whole contraption to wheel it to a different locale. This operation
> might be just the one that leads to the "optimal idiot inclination tip
> point" Ron mentions, especially if the wheels hit a bump in the process.
>
> The obvious question is, if they're going to go to the trouble of building
> a platform to accommodate the bench/pianist and a resting point for the
> heels at the pedals, why not just go all-out and build the damn thing big
> enough to accommodate the whole piano?? The whole platform could be on
> wheels if they wanted it to be movable ... very similar to a wheeled
> platform I built to accommodate a 3-manual organ console a few years ago.
> It worked great!
>
> Scott
> ------
> Scott A. Helms, Registered Piano Technician
> 480-818-3871
> www.helmsmusic.net
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090710/e9247dd3/attachment.htm>


More information about the pianotech mailing list

This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC