[pianotech] Moving a spinet

[Dean May]

>>. and claims he takes a baseball bat to family get togethers just in case
there's issues that need to be handled.

 

 

That has to be some of the best advice I've ever seen posted here. 

Dean

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Larry Fisher RPT
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:52 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Moving a spinet

 

I used to do this type of thing  .......   most cases I'd put the piano on a
grand skid and slide it up the stairs.  Then in my later years, I found a
guy that comes along at 6 foot 4 inches and 280 pounds and we'd "yard" that
mutha up the stairs removing the lid, the front panel and the knee board to
reduce weight.  He'd take the bottom and I'd step lively backwards up the
stairs.

 

I've moved so many of these things (grands and verticals) up stairs using my
legs mostly by wrapping a strap around my waist and walking backwards up the
stairs while two big bozos pushed from below.  It's put some excessive wear
on the knee cartilage to the point where once in a great while the cartilage
slips out of place from time to time and I have to gently coax it back into
place.   I've seen much younger people have worse knee problems that have
moved far more pianos. 

 

I stopped moving pianos up stairs a while back and the easy moves I've
priced myself out of the market so my yellow page ad will be pulled next
cycle.  My knees have not given me any grief for some months now and I've
lost close to an inch in three quarters in height.  At the age of 57 I've
had to admit that my bones are starting to rattle around a bit much and my
spine has some great looking curves to it.

 

I refer the difficult piano moves to another mover  ......   he's about half
my age, about twice my weight, tall as ever and claims he takes a baseball
bat to family get togethers just in case there's issues that need to be
handled.

 

Save your body for other things like getting to the piano's tuning pins
without the use of a wheelchair, hiking, kayaking, chasing babes and fine
dining.

 

Larry Fisher RPT

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