<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3019.2500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff style="FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px; MARGIN-TOP: 2px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I am reading this book now also and recommend it. Interesting reading, maybe a nice gift for a special customer, they might appreciate their technician after reading.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike McCoy RPT<BR>Chapters 170 & 190 PTG<BR>Langhorne, Pa<BR><A href="mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net">mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:MWisner@yamaha.com" title=MWisner@yamaha.com>Mark Wisner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:38 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> One-man piano move?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT size=1>In the book <FONT size=+0><STRONG>The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T E Carhart,</STRONG> the author d</FONT>escribes a "baby" grand being moved up a flight of stairs and into his Paris apartment by a piano mover who strapped the piano across his back, with the curve resting on his shoulder.  I'd have dismissed this passage as the meanderings of a clouded and uninformed mind if the author wasn't so accurate in virtually every other technical aspect of the piano.  Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? </FONT> <P> </P> <P>Mark Wisner<BR>Yamaha Corporation<BR><A href="mailto:mwisner@yamaha.com">mwisner@yamaha.com</A></P></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>