Danger: customer moving piano

[Jon Page]

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I had someone rent a studio upright which I had for sale. They wanted to 
save money
and move it themselves. Same thing  :-)   They said they were awful sorry 
and was
there anything they could do.  I said, "Yeah, You can buy it".  "That 
thing's not worth
$800, they said.   I said,  "Yeah, Not now..."

Cut plugs from the keys for releading and capstan relocation. Remove the 
letoff rail
and remove all the letoff screws, drill out the holes a little larger; now 
you have a great
grand damper holder.

The balance rail is good to affix to the wall for a tool rack.  The keybed 
is a good work surface
for grand action work on top of a piano (padded piano) .  The lid is a 
shelf, so could be the lower
panel but it is a good work surface to hold a set of keys.  The music rest 
rail is good for holding
hammers, wippens.

All sorts of good items in there.

Jon Page

At 12:45 PM 05/01/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi, I went to see a "customer" today, the call was that the piano got
>damaged in a move. Well, I got there and in his garage was the (vertical)
>piano, in the back of his truck - IN PIECES.
>He has secured it with nylon rope, he came around a corner and the "ropes"
>gave way and it fell out of the back of the truck (pick-up type) slowed down
>by the rope it landed on its top. The sides and pedal board came away as one
>U shaped piece and other bits fell off at same time of impact.
>Unfortuanately the plate is cracked otherwise I might have given him a
>serious quote, I was really trying to refrain from busrting out in laughter
>as he told me the story.
>So, as it is already "packed" in his truck he will bring it around tomorrow
>and I guess I'll have a few more spare action parts. I think I'll attempt
>making one of those computer cabinets with it, as shown in last May's
>Journal.
>Ho humm....... :)
>Brian Lawson, RPT

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