----- Original Message ----- > No serious piano mover is going to move a grand piano cross town without a > skid. Please explain why. Understand, I'm not taking a position on this at all - I've never moved a piano and I've simply never seen a skid used. > How would they get it up stairs. Not many stairs here is flat Florida. Does a skid have handles on it for carrying? > Do they tie the piano into the truck still on the dolly? Yes. > As others have said moving around the building as they do is OK as long as > the dolly is padded...but: > > You're the boss now...time to make some changes. An easy one is setting > the skid on the dolly, put a block of wood under the front of the skid > where the bass corner is set down. The can continue to tip right onto > the dolly but you want a skid included...they can set it up right from the > skid/dolly also, just reverse the moves. In my craziness of youth, I > use to move 9 fters with one big fellow...Stacy...ex-security guard for > Bill Graham Presents... > > David Ilvedson, RPT Terry Farrell
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