We should apply to Mercedes or BMW for a grant to install their backup warning sensors on the pedal boxes... On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Jim Busby wrote: > Doug, > > Right you are about the lyre catching. A professor rolled one (S&S > B) over a thing in the middle of a double-door and it caught and > broke the lyre all the way off! > > Jim Busby > Snow College > and BYU > > > > We got a few complaints on our heavily-used D. They were actually > about the pedals being too high. And they were too high, with the > piano on the truck. I tried several solutions, and have done best > by ordering a set of casters with the overall height that puts the > pedals in the right place. The best suggestion I can make is to > measure to the underside of the pedals (they are supposed to be at > the same height, BTW) when they're on the original casters. Then > measure the same dimension when it's back on the truck. Then > contact a caster supplier with specifications. I can probably look > up what I did if you need those specs. Or you can go to Caster > Solutions and ask them if they still have those specs from when I > ordered. If I remember, the replecement casters were almost 1" > shorter in overall height. Be sure to spec out floor type (for > wheel covering material) and weight capacity (950 lbs, plus truck, > but not evenly distributed. Anyone ever put each leg on a scale?) > > There are a few down sides to this: The lyre is prone to catch on > protruding door hardware, if there is any. There may be a small > difference in acoustic coupling with the floor. And someone will > have to deal with caster locks one way or another. > > Doug > > ********************************* > Doug Wood > Piano Technician > School of Music > University of Washington > dew2 at uw.edu > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100408/fb3394a4/attachment.htm>
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