Piano Truck Options

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 11/10/99 5:37:29 PM !!!First Boot!!!, 
Michael.Jorgensen@cmich.edu writes:

<< Hello,
        How are you handling piano truck sales?  Any tricks for a lone
 person getting the piano on it?  How long do you estimate for assembly?
 What do you consider a fair price since the wholesale price is $260.
 plus 110 lb shipping UPS?  Perhaps it's illegal to ask that but some
 guidance would be helpful.
       A church, which is a regular customer, wants one. I'm considering
 shipping it directly to them and letting their people assemble it and
 lift the piano onto it.
 
 Thanks in advance
 -Mike Jorgensen
 I hate lifting. >>


You don't have to lift the piano. Susan Graham wrote an article on how to 
build a box, on which you can put a jack. It works great. 

I double the price of the truck, and charge a tuning service call to assemble 
and install the truck, which takes about an hour. When you order it, have the 
company send it directly to the church. The boxes in which the truck come are 
heavy. Hopefully the church will have a had cart of some sort on which you 
can carry the boxes.

If you order from Schaff, the caster are already bolted on the truck. They 
also make a universal size truck. It fits on anything from a 5' -- to a 7' 
grand.  

Willem