Hoisting pianos

[Greg Newell]

Terry,
         Perhaps in my ... spare time. Seriously 
I doubt that I could ever find the time for such an enjoyable pursuit.

Greg



At 04:57 AM 9/2/2007, you wrote:
>FWIW:
>Another thought might be to do some historical 
>research on Ludwig Von Beethoven. My wife has 
>numerous biographies of him and it seems he 
>moved about 25 times in his last twenty years of 
>life. I guess the cranky old guy kept getting 
>thrown out of his second-floor apartments. You 
>know, the same second floor apartments that he 
>would have his large grand pianos moved into 
>each time he moved. No doubt some of the times 
>the stairs would not cut it. I'm sure some 
>inventive techniques were used that perhaps 
>might suggest a good method for you. Of course 
>Beethoven's pianos were not quite as heavy 
>without a large cast-iron plate in them, but the ideas might still apply.
>
>Google?
>
>Terry Farrell
>----- Original Message -----
>A piano store had pianos on the second floor and 
>built a ramp.  The piano was placed on a dolly 
>that was connected to a winch.  Dolly and 
>piano  was winched up the ramp to the second floor.  It worked very well.
>
>Bob Maret, RPT
>Piano Technician

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