Bill.. Not meaning to put down the obvious creativity here... but dont they sell casters mounted on steel runners that dont raise the piano up more then a mm or two over there ? The ones we get here are inexpensive, raise the pedals only 6-7 mm, and are quick and easy to mount. Bout the only disadvantage is that the caster on the back side protrud about 10 cm... which really isnt such a bad thing in most school situations after all as it keeps folks from shoving the instrument back side into wall mounted heaters. Seems like a lot of work to go to to construct your own design for one piano. I did like the thought of side protection tho, at the base of the piano. These things get moved around by careless folks a lot and I think weve all seen pianos with sides busted up at the bottom because of that. Cheers RicB Bill Ballard wrote: > Dear List > > I don't know if anyone else has tried this before, installation of > casters on this model of Yamaha console never designed to have them. > It's a 1968 piano at the alternative pilot school where my younger son > is in 9th grade. I was at a beginning-of-the-year clean-up and someone > mentioned that it would be nice to put casters on the piano, as it was > quite tippy on the four-wheel dolly they moved it around on. Clearly > the narrow base needed to be expanded by the addition of standard > toe-blocks, but the minimal construction of the piano made that look > dicey. Then I remembered a 4' length of 2"x3"x1/4" iron anlge back at > my shop, and among the parents there was one who did his own welding. > So I sent him off with a drawing of the cut-out necessary to allow > removal of the bottom board. > > "A few months passed" (as they say in the fairy tales, and as usually > the case in unfunded R&D), and I did the installation last week.
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