wtscherer wrote: > > Friends, > > For some reason I seem to have been dropped from the list. If any of you > are posting concerning "Falling Pianos", could you please send me a copy > separately until this problems is corrected? Thanks. > > Wally Scherer Wally, here is everything I've gotten so far: Subject: Re: Falling pianos Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:43:46 -0500 (EST) From: lesbart@juno.com (Leslie W Bartlett) Reply-To: pianotech@byu.edu To: pianotech@byu.edu 1 I was director of music at a small Texas town about twenty years ago when a new grand was delivered to the church. The truck had a large lift, to which the piano had been moved. One of the two movers, however, was deaf, and he evidently didn't "hear", lip read, or whatever, one of the other's instructions. The weight was shifted, for whatever reason, and the piano, out of crate, crashed to the pavement below, about four feet down, ruined, of course. Looking back, since that was before I learned about piano stuff, it seems that was a great deal of "drop". Leslie Bartlett M. Mus Houston Chapter PTG lesbart@juno.com Subject: Re: Falling pianos Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net> Reply-To: pianotech@byu.edu To: pianotech@byu.edu That drop could not have occured without the let-off. At 08:43 AM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote: >crashed to the pavement below, about four feet down, ruined, of course. >seems that was a great deal of "drop". > >Leslie Bartlett M. Mus Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: Re: Falling pianos Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:50:13 -0500 (EST) From: lesbart@juno.com (Leslie W Bartlett) Reply-To: pianotech@byu.edu To: pianotech@byu.edu 1 Ah, there you have it! I;ve not been in this business very long, and so that never occurred to me............ But now it is certainly clear. I wonder what the "blow distance" was when the poor chap got back to the store????????????????? Leslie On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:51:10 -0500 (EST) Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net> writes: >That drop could not have occured without the let-off. > >At 08:43 AM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote: >>crashed to the pavement below, about four feet down, ruined, of >course. >>seems that was a great deal of "drop". >> >>Leslie Bartlett M. Mus > >Jon Page >Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Subject: Re: Falling pianos Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:57:36 -0500 From: delgit@acc-net.com (Gittinger, Delbert M.) Reply-To: pianotech@byu.edu To: pianotech@byu.edu I've been moving pianos for 24 years. Most of the time I move spinets, consoles, and studios by myself. The only time I have trouble is when the customer tries to help. The only piano to fall was when I was letting the piano down the ramp off the back of my truck. The man of the house was sure I needed the help I had declined and began to "help" hold back the piano which was on a four wheel dolly. Of course his force pushed the high end of the piano to the side and off the ramp. The piano ended up on its back with no damage. In fact it wasn't even scratched. It had fallen on grass. After rubbing off the grass stain on the back post I put it back on the dolly and into the house. The tuning was shaken some which was easily corrected with a quick pitch raise/leveling tuning. Del Gittinger, RPT Registered Piano Technician of the Piano Technicians Guild delgit@acc-net.com Marion, OH > > I'm wondering if anyone else has an interesting story to tell about a piano > that fell. (Not in pitch.) Here's my story. > > Wally Scherer > Subject: Re: Falling pianos Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:57:40 -0500 (EST) From: SGrossner@aol.com Reply-To: pianotech@byu.edu To: pianotech@byu.edu In a message dated 97-03-11 14:09:02 EST, you write: << I couldn't hold the whole weight, so it came crashing down on its bottom edge, then tumbled over on its back with a loud "broinnnnng" as all the hammers hit all the strings at once. We stood there startled, in silence, just looking at each other. The manager came rushing out of the store to see what had happened. >> Same thing almost happened to me. My friend who was helping me at the time started singing "I just had to let it go" which had just come out by John Lennon. I laughed so hard I almost dropped it. Sam G. Chgo I had a old upright get away from me after replacing the casters with the big double tired rubber ones. The rear wheels took the weight of the piano before it was up high enough to stand, with obvious results. The bottom came out of the tilter hooks, the piano slid "that-a-way" on to its' back and squirted the tilter (and Me) t'other way like a couple of watermellon seeds! Now, I clamp the tilter to a couple of back posts with small bar clamps! Warren -- Warren D. Fisher fish@communique.net Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild New Orleans Chapter 701
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