[CAUT] Piano truck acoustics

[Chris Solliday]

The current guidelines for institutional maintenance from Gary Green at
Steinway recommends not using a truck, just legs and castors for acoustic
reasons. We use the Piano Transporter from Jansen with the original double
composition black wheels. It gets us over the humps securely time after
time, many years now.
 To my eye the last thing I want to view when attending a concert is those
big honkin brass "shoes." Pianos should be all black and so should the
wheels and this is less distraction from the listening. The players should
not where paisley shirts either, black is best, but then when I play tennis
I still wear all white, maybe I'm just old school.
Chris Solliday
Lehigh University
Lafayette College
East Stroudsburg University
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zeno Wood" <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:13 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Piano truck acoustics


> I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the acoustic qualities of
> a piano truck versus having rubber or metal casters.  We have a
> Steinway D (on a truck) in our recital hall that sounds big when
> you're sitting at it, but doesn't sound as big when you're 30 feet
> back, in the audience.  But the Yamaha with big honking metal casters
> doesn't sound as big up close, but sounds bigger from the audience.
> Thoughts?
>
> Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
>
> Thanks,
> Zeno Wood
> Brooklyn College
>