David Love wrote: > Anecdotal information is difficult to draw conclusions from but I have > countless pianos come through my shop annually and I follow all of them to > the customer's home--95% Steinway pianos. They get knocked down with the > lyre with a heavy blanket underneath to rock the piano over (that's how my > mover does it) unless it's a Louis or something else where the lyre is very > fragile. When I get to the customer's home I just don't find any problems > with bedding, regulation or anything else associated with the move. Changes > in temperature and humidity from my shop environment to their home > environment can cause some tuning issues but since they pianos are often > newly strung it's difficult to separate that out. Other than that I just > don't see problems. This is exactly my point. Eliminate the one "maybe" instance in an entire career, the "I believe", the "surely it must", and the outright "Because I say so" assertions with no reasonable evidence, and we're left with a whole lot of (mostly unobserved) cases where no detrimental change took place as a result of using the lyre. I like the lyre brace that Andrew posted, and the piano horse, a lot because they both are intended to make the move easier and protect the lyre from damage at least to some extent. Of all the traffic on lists through the years about the horrors of rocking down on the lyre, I don't recall a single word of concern from anyone about the considerable side stress put on the treble leg when the lyre isn't used. Have any of you out there considered the PSI load on that leg plate connection with the weight of the piano levering the leg out at that angle? Why doesn't that concern anyone? I always wonder why any one of many possible concerns arbitrarily becomes *the* one to crusade against. Ron N
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