<!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 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px"> <DIV>Hi Mark -</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>No, I <U>haven't </U>heard of that, and when reading that book I = remember questioning just what kind of brute would be capable of such a feat. = However, I DID find the book itself overall a rather enjoyable read.  = Not that often a piano shop is the backdrop for a novel, eh?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mark Potter</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:bases-loaded@juno.com">bases-loaded@juno.com</A></= DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:38:32 -0700 "Mark Wisner" <<A href="mailto:MWisner@yamaha.com">MWisner@yamaha.com</A>> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px = solid"> <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> </DIV> <P> </P> <P>Mark Wisner<BR>Yamaha Corporation<BR><A href="mailto:mwisner@yamaha.com">mwisner@yamaha.com</A></P></FONT> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>