Paul, I feel your pain! We purchased one last year (the chair's idea...) and have used it once. I put those small 3-wheeled casters on each leg- ours lives in the back of our large auditorium and there's access/egress without having to remove legs, thank god. So the casters work for us. I haven't bothered to see how it works. We used for a performance of Carmina Burana arranged for concert band, and needed the space onstage for 2 pianos and all the percussion, so it worked for that. But an upright would've saved space, too... Good luck Steve Kabat Cleveland State University -----caut-bounces at ptg.org wrote: ----- To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> Sent by: caut-bounces at ptg.org Date: 09/26/2010 04:25PM Subject: [CAUT] Yamaha Avant Grand Digital questions Hi All, Do any of you have one of these new Yamaha Avant Grand digital "grand" shaped pianos? We just purchased one...not from my input, but the director's. Only he and the Dean likes it. I really need some help! So, anyway, we have one. Since they're only 48" long, they're very strange to move and weigh nearly 450lbs. There are no piano trucks I've found to put one on, and we'll still need to move it like a grand on it's side on a moving board to get through our normal doors and the elevator. As nice as our Director thinks it is, it is to be a nemesis in my pants....rear side!! I need to move it several times in the next 8 weeks and then it will "live" in our new Digital Arts" prof's office. It has some nice features like Midi in and out. But, it only has 5 voices like two grand "sounds", two digital piano "sounds" and a "harpsichord" sound. Also, each leg has 6 bolts and the lyre has nearly as many, so...lots of time to dismantle and re-assemble. As lame as this sounds, since I'm stuck with the moving duties: how do I instruct our moving service fellows to move this thing safely? Should I make some sort of wedge thingy for the moving board as the only "straight" side on either side of it is just 24" long??? The weight distribution seems pretty evenly distributed. It's nearly impossible to strap on a board safely. None of us here are thrilled with this new purchase besides the director and dean, so we're all scratching our heads on why did we buy this, where is it useful and how to move it, although the professors in the orchestra dept think it's great, but then again, they don't think logistically, and they'll never need to move it. Would love some input from anybody! HELP! Thanks Paul
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