[pianotech] Bumpers for Piano Dolly

[Terry Farrell]

I bought and installed a piano dolly on a Yamaha studio upright for a  
local church. They have the piano in the sanctuary back-to-back with  
the HUGE organ. The organ is new and with a nice wooden case. The  
dolly on the piano has the rear casters mounted to the dolly rearward  
from the plane of the piano back - so there is a horizontal piece of  
steel about six inches long and about four inches off the floor. If  
someone were to push the piano toward the organ, the steel piano dolly  
would dig into the nice wooden case of the organ.

I wish to put some sort of bumper on the piano dolly to protect the  
organ. Anyone have any great ideas?

I was going to bend a piece of quarter-inch thick dense foam rubber  
180 degrees (always forget how to make the little "o"-thing for  
degrees!) and glue it to the painted-black steel with contact cement -  
I think that might work, but I'm concerned about stinking up the  
sanctuary. I had actually gone there to do the job last week when just  
as I was about to open the bottle of contact cement people started to  
walk in for an imminent baby baptism.

Something like the strips of plastic one might put on the edge of a  
car door to protect it from getting chipped - only a lot (not alot!)  
thicker and bigger and made of rubber, etc.

I know someone out there has to be more creative than I.

Thanks!

Terry Farrell