[pianotech] How NOT to move a grand piano

[David Ilvedson]

Where are all these pictures?   I only saw 4...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 4/11/2010 1:53:57 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] How NOT to move a grand piano


>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