Moving Experience

[Vanderhoofven]

Hi Alan,

I tuned a Baldwin studio sized piano on Saturday at a church.  When I was 
done, the music minister came to check the piano out and rearranged the 
stage.  The piano was moved about 4 feet away from where it was when I 
tuned it.  When I rechecked the tuning, it was horrible!  The octaves 
across the bass/tenor break had a very fast beat going.  I found that if I 
put my knee under the keybed and lifted, that the piano went back into 
acceptable tune.  We ended up putting a shim under the left front 
caster.  Evidently the back of the piano "racked" as it was moved from the 
original position to the new position, because the floor was not perfectly 
level.

As far as moving a piano from one house to the next, it depends on the 
climate difference from one house to the next.

Sincerely,
David Vanderhoofven
Stayin' Up Late in Joplin, MO


At 11:24 PM 10/28/02, Alan R. Barnard wrote:

>Assuming it doesn't spend two weeks in an unheated warehouse or some =
>such, is moving really all that traumatic to a tuned piano?
>
>Alan Barnard
>Movin' Slow in Salem, MO