<!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">= 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>