<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px">  Suffice it to say that fellow will have knee & hip replacement in his future...We had a fellow here in the Bay Area that used to move uprights by himself, Ed Gong.  He made an ingenious device, basically a big step that when place on the steps of a stairway, provided him with a larger landing from which to maneuver.  He humped the piano up the stairs, somehow using this thing... David I.   ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Mark Wisner <<A href="mailto:MWisner@yamaha.com">MWisner@yamaha.com</A>> To: <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>> Received: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:38:32 -0700 Subject: One-man piano move? In the book The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T E Carhart, the author describes 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?    Mark Wisner Yamaha Corporation <A href="mailto:mwisner@yamaha.com">mwisner@yamaha.com</A></BODY></HTML>