Hoisting pianos

[Greg Newell]

Ron,
         The vaulted ceiling above the glass wall 
leave more than enough swing room with plenty to spare. Very high ceilings!

Greg Newell



At 11:18 AM 9/1/2007, you wrote:

>>Terry,
>>         I thought of that but no one around is 
>> old enough to have seen it go up. :-(
>>The contractor/parishioner will be poking 
>>through the ceiling plaster to install either a 
>>hook or a beam clamp and the rest is up to me. 
>>I like the idea of this challenge but perhaps 
>>what I'm thinking of is not the only way. Thanks for the reply!
>>Greg Newell
>
>It likely went up before something was built, a 
>glass wall, perhaps, or a repositioned stairway, 
>that precludes it coming down the same way.
>
>The hook thing worries me some. Will it be high 
>enough to allow some lateral swing when the 
>piano is as high as it needs to be to clear the 
>wall/railing? Getting it up is less than half the problem.
>Ron N

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