<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C39F31.1D42B230">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=FR style='tab-interval:35.4pt'> <div class=Section1> Leav= ing the lyre to use it as a pivot is the usual method, unless you suspect = the lyra is not strong enough (some older grands, and some more recent ones also = – Schimmel , some Bluthner if I recall = correctly)<o:p></o:p> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Lyra can stay on the = piano with  other legs if there = is only one move and one piano, but it is harder to tie the piano in the truck = then so this is not very good advice.<o:p></o:p> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Isaac = OLEG<o:p></o:p> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> -----Message d'origine----- De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de = PatchWick@aol.com Envoyé : = jeudi 30 octobre 2003 20:05 À : = pianotech@ptg.org Objet : Re: Piano = moving /lyre attached <![if = !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> In a message dated 10/30/2003 10:19:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, peter-burns.pianotuner@tesco.net writes: <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm = 0cm 4.0pt'> >Hi list, >  I have always detached the pedal lyre when moving a grand = piano.I had a >friend help me deliver a small grand last week,that we had = rebuilt,and he >left the pedal lyre on.He says he always leaves it on when breaking = the >piano down,and puts it on again before the legs, when setting it = back up.I >am wondering how safe it is,as it is so much easier to move. >Best, >Hazen Bannister<o:p></o:p> </div> I was working for Mayflower Van lines when I first started moving grands = and we always removed the lyre first. However, once in "the business" = I learned to do it the right way. Leave the Lyre on and use it as a pivot = to lower the corner onto the skid. Works neat and easy and in 30 years have = never lost a lyre. The store I work for (a former Baldwin dealer) lost only = one lyre in 50 years and that was on a Baldwin Concertmaster. Bad construction. I = found out when I called Baldwin (Gibson) that there was a long back log of = orders for new lyres for those grands. Anyway, I also always leave the lyre on until last so I have something = solid to hang on to if the piano starts to teeter a bit. Works great! Never a = problem (so far...) Here's to keepin' em movin'! will wickham<o:p></o:p><= /p> </div> </body> </html>