Amazing what having far too much money does to people's practicality, esthetics, and common sense. Susan Kline >Many years ago I worked on an old Knabe that was made with very >ornate carving all over the entire instrument. It couldn't be put >on its side or you would crush the carving. The legs did not come >off and were tied together with wood underneath. It always had to >be moved in a standing position. > >The people who had it redone were moving from their N. Dallas estate >to a penthouse downtown that was being redone for >them. Unfortunately the piano would not fit in the elevator. The >solution was to build a scaffolding elevator up the side of the >building (18 floors). The piano was padded and put upside down on >the top of the scaffolding elevator. It was moved to the roof of >the building and lowered into the penthouse through the sky >light. The plate was not in the piano at that time. I had to do >the stringing in the penthouse with the other construction guys. > >The keys of this piano were covered with mother of pearl and in the >room where they kept it, the sun made the pieces of mother of pearl >come off, so they had a large canvas cover made to go over the sky >light. It was controlled by a motor that could remove the cover for >parties but cover it for the rest of the time.
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