Oh Nooooooo!!!!

[Stephen Airy]

LOL

I remember one time several years ago some friends
(around 400 or 500) and I were coming home from a camp
at Robber's Cave State Park.   Someone was moving the
piano in the back of a pickup, and apparently they
didn't secure it enough, cause it came crashing down
with a bang.  The keys wouldn't play, but it turned
out that they had just come off the pins.  It plays
fine now  (and did once they put the keys back).  It
was a Hallet & Davis (probably 1920s I'd guess).


--- Carl Meyer <cmpiano@home.com> wrote:
> Second the motion!  The only time I really damaged a
> piano was using a
> swivel caster.  Using straight fixed casters require
> you to tilt the piano
> for turning, but it won't go south on you and get
> unbalanced and embarass
> you. This is especially truwe if you are trying to
> move it by yourself.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Carl Meyer
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Ilvedson <ilvey@jps.net>
> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Oh Nooooooo!!!!
> 
> 
> > I bet it had to do with the swivel wheels?  I,
> personally, wouldn't use
> > anything except fixed wheels for moving pianos.
> >
> > David I.
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 5/3/01 at 2:58 PM Robert Goodale wrote:
> >
> > >I had a major oops today.  Following a panic
> request by some university
> > >administrators who were having a ceremony to give
> each other awards
> > >again, I was requested to "immediately" move a
> piano out of a lobby
> > >area.  It was a P-22 and although I didn't have
> any help and the moment
> > >I went ahead to move it myself.  No big deal.  I
> found a student who
> > >helped me get the dolly under it.  With the hard
> part done I proceeded
> > >to roll it across the campus to the music
> building.  Now the dolly I use
> > >is custom made by yours truly.  It has two fixed
> wheels and to swivel,
> > >both 6" in diameter.  It has an oak frame and it
> rolls like a dream.
> > >Any easier and it would glide up hill.  So no
> problem, I'm humming along
> > >the sidewalk when suddenly a group of students
> come walking across in my
> > >path, naturally at a corner where I need to go! 
> And so.... down she
> > >went onto the concrete with a bang!  A couple
> students helped me get it
> > >back up again and back on the dolly.  I continued
> the rest of the trip
> > >with no further problems and only walked away
> with a few good scrapes.
> > >Unfortunately so did the piano.  It has multiple
> bashed up corners, a
> > >damaged fall board, and and a broken key top. 
> Looks kind of like
> > >someone tumbled it down a hill.  Well I told the
> Dept. chair and he
> > >wasn't too mad about it.  I guess it just looks a
> little MORE like a
> > >university piano should now.  All it needs is a
> few initials carved in
> > >it and it could qualify as a high school piano.
> > >
> > >Rob Goodale, RPT
> > >Las Vegas, NV
> >
> >
> >
> 


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