<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Randy</FONT></div> <div> </div> <div>If the piano was being moved on just the legs and casters, that was an accident waiting to happen. Whoever is pushing the piano, especially one as big as a D, won't feel a slight bump in the carpet for the leg to catch on. Now that the piano is on a truck, it should happen again. </div> <div> </div> <div>But even on a truck, there is still the possibility that a leg can break. That happen at the University of Alabama. The floor cleaning crew rolled the D, on a piano truck, over a door jam out in the hallway. When they to tried to roll it back, over the jam, the right front leg broke, and the piano became wedged in the door. Mind you, this was a 40 year old piano, and the legs probably were weakened anyway after years of moving. But with inexperienced people, it will happen. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim<br> </div> <div style="CLEAR: both"> <div> </div> </div> <br> <br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br> From: PIANO2NR <PIANO2NR@aol.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 4:51 pm<br> Subject: [pianotech] Broken leg on 5 month old Steinway D<br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_3_20ac91d9-72c0-4f9f-9ecb-716a2c698fca><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <div>Hello list;</div> <div>Has anyone else experienced this?  Piano is in new university chapel with smooth, short nap carpet and gets rolled twice a week about 20 -30 feet.  It seems to me that the base of the leg with the grain running cross ways on the back leg would be prone to breaking and the large caster being so offset from the leg would add to the stress.  Piano has been repaired and placed on cart without the brass casters.  But since base of leg is not laminated, it looks to me like this is an accident waiting to happen.</div> <div> </div> <div>Randy Mangus, RPT</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><IMG style="WIDTH: 182px; HEIGHT: 221px" id=MA1.1329273962 vspace=5 src="cid:X.MA1.1329273962@aol.com" width=182 height=221></div> <div><IMG style="WIDTH: 185px; HEIGHT: 247px" id=MA2.1329273962 vspace=5 src="cid:X.MA2.1329273962@aol.com" width=185 height=247></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </FONT></div> </div> </font>