<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Dean, = and the rest of you,          &nb= sp;      Normally I would not enter into a discussion about moving/lifting pianos.  = My 5 foot 3 inch stature doesn’t allow me to do my share in that department.  However, I can attest to what Dean is saying.  At = the Washington D.C. Convention (can’t remember which year) Les = Bartlett was determined to prove that even I could lift a piano onto a dolly.  He pulled on the opposite end and = I lifted a Baldwin Hamilton high enough to get on a moving dolly.  (I = think it was Les who helped me, or perhaps it was the glass or two of Merlot = that was the ticket!!)  :>)   Just = thought I’d share..... Jeannie     <div> Jeannie Grassi, RPT Associate Editor, Piano Technicians Journal <a = href="mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net">mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net</a>= </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center = style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dean May Sent: Thursday, January = 27, 2005 5:05 AM To: dave@davispiano.com; = Pianotech Subject: RE: Dolly = Install </div>   <div> >>I helped a fellow in our chapter tip = up a P22, and my brother helped me with a Baldwin Hamilton one time, but haven't = felt the gumption to hoist myself...especially some old upright. Say, do you = guys get the oldies up on end by yourselves? </div> <div>   </div> <div>   </div> <div> I've done it on = occasion. It takes some practice to learn how to lock your back and arms and lift = it up with your legs, but it can be done. Having someone on the other end = pulling helps out quite a bit. They should put a foot on the toe block, grab as = high as they can, then hold their body as far from the piano as they can. = </div> <div>   </div> <div>   </div> <div> Dean</font= > </div> </div> </body> </html>