[pianotech] Grand Piano Tilter

[Paul T Williams]

It's (the weight) spread out and the lyre is out of the picture.  I can't 
stand seeing movers use the lyre as a fulcrum.  I once saw a brand new 
Bluthner concert grand set up this way and almost made me sick. The lyre 
stress should never be subjected to sideways stuffs, but there is no harm 
to the keybed or undercarriage of the piano to worry about. The mechanism 
is behind the keybed, or close enough to the back to be out of harms way.

This does not stress the piano anywhere near what you refer to. I say "go 
for it"! There is no flaw.
Since I have a great Moving Services dept at our University, I don't need 
to buy one.  They just move them the old fashioned way with huge men and 
all I have to do is knock the legs out of their place. 

Now figure a safe way to move an 8' harpsichord into a 7' elevator, and 
I'll be interested! We move them all too often and have to tilt them to a 
45 degree angle.  Then, they're all messed up when I get them to the 
concert hall and have to spend an hour getting them to play just right.

Best,

Paul



From:
"Greg Newell" <gnewell at ameritech.net>
To:
<pianotech at ptg.org>
Date:
01/09/2012 03:52 PM
Subject:
Re: [pianotech] Grand Piano Tilter



Don’t bother. It has the same flaw that tilting down by the pedal lyre 
does. It puts weight on the center of a flexible panel (keybed) instead of 
spreading it along the length of it like the Piano Horse does. See Jansen 
for the real one.
 
Greg Newell
 
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On 
Behalf Of Wally Scherer
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 6:53 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Grand Piano Tilter
 

Really nice. I'll pass the link along to our local piano movers.

Wally

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--- On Thu, 12/15/11, David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> wrote:

From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
Subject: [pianotech] Grand Piano Tilter
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:19 PM
I just discovered the grand piano tilter by moondog manufacturing:
 http://www.moondogmanufacturing.com/

Wow, what a sensible looking device!

Daivd
www.davidboyce.co.uk
 


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