[CAUT] Restricting piano movement

[Fred Sturm]

	I don't know how practical this would be, but probably the best way  
to limit a piano is by installing a lip of something on the order of  
1x2 around the area within which you want to allow the piano to move.  
We have such a thing on a raised classroom stage, to keep the grand  
from accidentally being pushed into the seats. [This actually happened  
with an upright 15 - 20 years ago - amazingly enough there wasn't all  
that much damage to the piano, and apparently nobody got hurt. But  
thereafter we had some metal channel bolted to the stage lip.] It  
_could_ be done within a room, with obvious drawbacks (among which  
would be people tripping on it).
	Where it is a question of protecting walls, a "chair rail" works:  
something on the order of 1x6 screwed to the wall at a height just  
below that of a grand piano lid. Keeps the lid from being skinned as  
well.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu

On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Douglas Wood wrote:

> Query: we have a few pianos that need to be able to be moved within  
> classrooms, but we would like to restrict the movement so as not to  
> block other uses of the room or damage screens, etc.
>
> We tried caster cups. As you can imagine, the pianos were off them  
> in short order, I suspect because NO movement was intolerable by some.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
> Doug
>
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> School of Music
> University of Washington
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