<!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 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 8pt MS Sans Serif; MARGIN-LEFT: = 2px"> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial = size=2>Leonard, our former chapter president, used to work for a music store. One day a rather = burly man came in, and asked if they took trade-ins. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Yes," = he replied.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2>"OK, = I'll be right back," the man said.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial = size=2>Leonard watched as the man went out to his car, and, by himself, picked up the spinet = out of the trunk. He walked to the door and said, "Where do you want it?"</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=580210403-12072002><FONT face=Arial size=2>John = M. Formsma<BR>Blue Mountain, MS </FONT></DIV></SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face=Arial = size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of</B> Mark Wisner<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:39 AM<BR><B>To:</B> = pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> One-man piano move?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the book = <STRONG>The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T E Carhart,</STRONG> 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?  </FONT> <P> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark Wisner<BR>Yamaha = Corporation<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:mwisner@yamaha.com"><FONT face=Arial size=2>mwisner@yamaha.com</FONT></A></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>