Tim: What kind of "transporter"? dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/28/56 at 10:51 AM Tim Coates wrote: -- big snip -- >The performance hall didn't like the looks of a truck. They opted to >install >casters and buy a transporter. The piano sounds better and there is less >stress on the legs. The legs are not involved in moving what so ever. > >Tim Coates > > >Ron Nossaman wrote: > >> >I have a Steinway S at a hotel which is rolled about 100 feet across a >> >hardwood floor. They do not want a truck so I'm thinking double rubber >> >wheel castors. These should fit without too much trouble? >> > >> >David I. >> >> I'd recommend a truck anyway, or nothing. Nothing but a truck ties the >legs >> together, and regardless of whether you have double casters or triple >> caster individual leg dollies, rolling a piano any distance regularly >> without the bracing support of a stage truck is asking to get someone >hurt. >> Personally, I would have nothing to do with this if they didn't want to >do >> it as safely as possible. >> >> Ron N _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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