List - Since Danny Dover has not weighed in on this topic..... (He's just returned from vacation and is catching up, I'm sure.) At Dartmouth's Hopkins Center they have a transporter for their principal performance piano (Hamburg D) which sounds like a hybrid of the ones advocated by Horace. It lifts the whole piano, could be done by one person, but they usually use two because of the slalom course they have to negotiate. The piano shuttles back and forth between the concert hall and the climate- controlled faculty studio where it otherwise lives. (Other pianos on conventiional stage trucks are more readily available for the less demanding performances.) The piano seems better acoustically and mechanically when standing directly on the stage "on its own three feet". And it gives a "just right" visual impression you cannot otherwise achieve. I hope Danny will junp in now to fill in the details. Danny? - Tom McNeil, RPT - Vermont Piano Restorations
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