[pianotech] How NOT to move a grand piano

[Ron Nossaman]

William Truitt wrote:
> I accept your premise about the two feet in the truck, judging from the
> pictures.  Even if it did "just clip", that still begs the question - Why
> wasn't somebody watching? 

They probably were, just not in the right spot at the right 
time, like we all have done thousands of times. They just got 
unlucky and didn't get away with this one.


>And why didn't they spin it sideways on the gate,
> as virtually everyone has suggested?  To borrow a phrase from Forrest Gump,
> "Stupid is, as stupid does."

That's starting to look like a possibility. What makes you 
think they didn't? Where are the pictures of the piano in 
place and the gate lowering? I went looking for them. I see 
the truck arriving. I see them setting the dolly, using the 
gate to lift, and I see them wheeling the piano on the dolly, 
out onto the gate. Then I see the piano on the ground. The 
picture of them with the piano in place on the dolly and the 
gate going down is curiously missing. Why? There are pictures 
of the reaction of the crew immediately after the dump, and 
further pictures of onlookers and the rescue attempt with the 
front loader, so the photographer was apparently documenting 
as much of the process as possible.



> If he doesn't understand why it happened, I definitely wouldn't hire them
> for the next move, bad luck or no.  But judging from the worldwide
> publicity, they are probably getting fewer calls anyway.

I'm sure that's true, which is why I think it would be nice to 
see the real sequence of events in the photos. This, 
naturally, is better press, whatever damage it does.
Ron N