How about building a padded caul? I have not done this, but maybe making a pattern (like one you make when ordering a cover) would give you the profile for a building a caul that could then be attached to a skid board? I did move a butterfly grand once. I didn't know it was a butterfly until I got to the move. Since it was just a cross town move, we simply folded and rolled a bunch of moving blankets like a jelly roll and filled the space between the skid and tail. Hope that helps Gordon Large, RPT Maine -----Original Message----- From: John Dorr <a440 at bresnan.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 11:14 am Subject: [pianotech] Moving a Butterfly Grand Piano Hi list, How the heck does one create a crate for shipping a Butterfly Grand Piano? I'm supposed to go look at one this afternoon with an eye to that. I'm tempted to just refer it to the transport company! It doesn't have a "long side" like the usual grand piano. The only "long" side is the keyboard side, but it's not flat enough/wide enough it seems to me. Anybody have any experience or even inexperienced thoughts on this? Thanks in advance, John Dorr, RPT Helena, MT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100728/f335daeb/attachment.htm>
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