need ideas

[Mark Cramer]

How about a complicated solution? I had mentioned previously the Kawai UST-7
(an otherwise amazing studio piano, IMHO) as being especially susceptable to
this problem, and had several others echo the same findings. The irony is
the UST (including 5's thru 8's) is built very well for moving in every
other respect; superb steel frame, double wheel castors, etc.

I had intended to ask Don Mannino if there was an awareness as to why the
UST's rack so easily. I recall seeing creative back re-inforcement for
back-post-less uprights, detailed on the PTJ reprint CD. It involved
gusseting the back of the piano with a patterned sheet of plywood.

The question remains whether the floor is the (greater) culprit, or the
piano's cabinet?
Has everyone re-acquainted (and re-glued) at least one old upright back to
it's estranged cabinet sides? :>)

Mark Cramer,
Brandon University




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-caut@ptg.org [mailto:owner-caut@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
kam544@flash.net
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:33 PM
To: caut@ptg.org
Subject: need ideas


Dear List,

I recently have discovered a problem with unlevel floors in some university
classrooms causing the pianos to go out of tune when moved only a few
inches from the tuning location.

Other than requesting the pianos not be moved, are there any other
corrective measures or ideas that someone has employed with any success?

Thank you,

Keith McGavern, RPT
Oklahoma Baptist University
Saint Gregory's University
Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA