<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"> <DIV><SPAN class=560015019-10072002><FONT size=1>I have a customer who claims that a small hispanic mover hauled her baby grand DOWN two flights of stairs, with only an assistant at the top of the stairs holding a rope, apparanlty to keep the piano from getting away from the bottom guy. But I've never heard of UP stairs that way.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=560015019-10072002><FONT size=1></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=560015019-10072002><FONT size=1>Greg Casper</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=560015019-10072002><FONT size=1>San Jose, CA</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Mark Wisner<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:39 AM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> One-man piano move?<BR><BR></FONT></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>