Casters

[Fred Sturm]

John,
	I suggest you do (or suggest having done) what I am about to do upon
purchase of a new D for our recital hall: install padded bumpers on the
door jambs between hall and storage area. The bumpers need to be
slightly below lid level, and extend to the keybed. I haven't done it
yet, but think that a piece of one by whatever material covered by
carpet should be fine. Will also install a "chair rail" along the wall
where the piano is kept, similarly padded and just below lid level.
	The problem of control is mostly just while the casters are swivelling.
I have shunted two D's back and forth through doorways single handed for
15 years without one scrape. But the work-studies aren't quite as
careful and experienced.
Fred Sturm
University of new Mexico

John Ross wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> They are just moving it from the storage room, to the stage and
> back.
> In the process they damaged the piano, and I think they are
> blaming the fact that they can't control it, on the truck.
> They are told to move it with no less than 2 people, but I think
> they sometimes use just one person.
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> John M. Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
> piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca