Stupid Mistake

[John Ross]

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How about this one.
Giving a free lecture, to a bunch of piano music teachers. By the way a good way to get your name known.
One of them asked about a crack in the soundboard, so I turned the piano around to show all of them the soundboard, and where a crack would be.
I continued talking, and nonchalantly, push the piano back into position with one hand. Wrong, wrong, wrong, the caster didn't turn as it was a carpeted floor and the piano started to fall. Next mistake, I tried to catch it, it landed on my big toe, which I thought I had pulled out in time. I didn't, four fractures, in the end segment.
That is why I was hobbling around at the convention, in Dearborn.
I told the class that was not the way to do it, that to always take care when moving a piano. 
And, yes I did gain some customers from it.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Kurta 
  To: Pianotech 
  Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 3:50 PM
  Subject: Re: Stupid Mistake


      Hi Sue:
      The worst one I can remember is trying to tilt a new studio piano on a tile floor,  without a safety strap around the tilter and piano.  You guessed it!  When I tried to tip it back up, as soon as the rear caster contacted the floor, the piano slid off the tilter on its back resulting in a fair amount of cabinet damage.  The only saving grace:  it was my piano in my home!
      Mike Kurta

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