Piano truck choice?

[Otto Keyes]

There was an outfit in South Bend, Ind. that made a dolly designed by a
piano technician in the area, but I can't recall either the name of the
company or the tech. at the moment.  It had a dolly for each leg with two
wheels & braces that went up to the bottom of the case.  It was the most
solid piano dolly I've ever seen.  A number of years ago I put them on a
several pianos, but they never really got well known in the market.  It
looked something like this with the leg sitting on the pin in the middle.
(Hey! I'm a tuna, not a graphic arteest -- gimmee a break!)  They move like
a dream & the only way you could knock the legs off would be by ramming it
into a wall with enough force to destroy the piano.

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Otto

PS:  Anybody had the guts to try the spray can voicing?  Or does everybody
figure the U Idaho potato-head has starched his synapses?  Remember, CA is
just a politically correct form of super-glue.  Used wrong, it's still the
equivelant of sticking your tongue on the flag pole in January in Anchorage.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:55 AM
Subject: Piano truck choice?


> Hi
>
> The Newport Arts Center has a Kawai grand in their front foyer, roughly
> 5'6". The director has asked me to figure out what sort of truck they
> should buy for it. He says he doesn't want anything "clunky looking" but
> they need something to make the piano easier to wheel around on the (firm,
> thin) carpet.
>
> Any suggestions? It's not something I've done before.
>
> Susan
>