On 3/11/09, Rob & Helen Goodale <rrg at unlv.nevada.edu> wrote: > >> Subject: [pianotech] Securing Pianos to the floor >> >> Esteemed Liszt, >> A client of mine oversees maintaining instruments on a ship. He just >> wrote >> me asking: "Most of our pianos are secured with a cup-like caster.? The >> piano >> leg fits into this cup and the cup is secured to the floor of the ship. >> Where >> I could purchase more or something like it?" >>something like this / know where to procure? Thanks! Jim Wilson > =================================================== > A number of years ago I served as navigator on a class II star cruiser in > the Delta Quadrant. To keep the piano secured to the bulkhead in the > captain's lounge we used an anti-grav harness which drew it's power directly > from the warp field generators. Even when encountering a level 5 ion storm For level 6 ion storm and above, I would recommend eyebolts screwed into rim and floor with cables and turnbuckles. As you may recall from your starfleet training, in level six you will encounter pitch and roll in excess of 30° as well as G-forces in excess of 5, usually simultaneously. AnOn
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