<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> <DIV>Oh My Gosh!  This brings me flashbacks to my CAU Tech days!  Besides being "Supervisor of Keyboard Services," I had the extra duty of hiring and supervising a staff of student stage managers, for the primary recital hall.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In my case, a stage manager was moving a concert grand from a position at the front of the stage where it was located for a piano concerto set up.  The treble castor of the piano truck went off the edge of the stage.  As the piano slid along the treble arm of the truck, it rotated to bring the keyboard parallel to the front row of seats in the auditorium.  By the time the treble leg could reach the floor below, the piano was tilting so much that it flipped upside-down.  Before the front edge of the lid could come to rest on the floor, the keyboard engaged the first row of seats, with three of the arm rests crushing groups of 3-4 keys into the action cavity.  The piano truck was ejected to the far end of the floor below the stage, while the piano was suspended upside-down, the keybed hanging on the front row of arm rests, and the rear portion of the lid hanging on the front edge of the stage.  The supreme irony was that the person who would be responsible for repairing the damage (myself) was also the offending stage manager's boss!   The errant stage manager was reassigned to the piano shop, for first-hand experience dealing with the consequences of his carelessness.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Frank Emerson</DIV> <DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:pianoguru@earthlink.net">piano guru@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=anrebe@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:anrebe@sbcglobal.net">Andrew and Rebecca Anderson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Piano tech List</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 2/20/2007 8:26:16 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Wheels</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2>Yes Indeed,<BR>Tongue was thoroughly ensconced in cheek. ;-)<BR><BR>Andrew Anderson<BR><BR>At 01:51 AM 2/20/2007, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">On Fe 19, 2007, at 22:47, Andrew Anderson wrote: <BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">One of my clients, Dr. Mary Grace Carroll did a recital in Corpus Christie on the fine D there.  After the concert the manger was wheeling the piano across the stage and it got away from him and went down the stairs.  Broke a couple of legs.  So much for easy rolling trucks! <BR><BR>Andrew Anderson </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>The Concert Grand he was moving got away from HIM??  Hardly the fault of a caster - it was only doing its job.  As opposed to the manager, who should have at least one helper when moving anything weighing 1000 lbs.   I think due diligence went out the window on this one. <BR><BR><FONT size=2>Urgent Goring <BR>Piano Forte Supply <BR>(250) 754-2440 <BR>info@pianofortesupply.com <BR><A href="http://www.pianofortesupply.com">http://www.pianofortesupply.com</A></FONT> <BR><BR></blockquote></x-HTML></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>