[pianotech] How NOT to move a grand piano

[Leslie Bartlett]

Back when I was young and stupid, I use to 

I found interesting the comment about the name of the company splayed over
the truck, and how THEY were pretty bad movers, who might likely suffer a
great deal from the "stupid move".  Maybe it was not stupid, just a bad day
when the stars didn't align or something..... Years before I get into this
business, I watched a Kimball baby grand (perhaps no terrible loss) go off
the back of a moving truck to the pavement below.  Like airplanes landing
with gear-up, it's a lovely sight until "touchdown".  One of the two men
doing the moving was deaf, and he missed a "call". I presume the
hearing-abled person "assumed" the other guy got the call and everything was
under control. Uh, such wasn't the case.  Not stupidity, though. Honest
fallibility.

Don't most of us try to do about the best we can with fallible capacities
and limits, and sometimes poo-poo-populates.............  I've lived with
the costs of my failures, and appreciated it so much when people have
graciously accepted my fallibility,.
Les bartlett