Steinway legs & castors

[Tim Coates]

Hi Dave,

Jansen carries them.  Item #409, somewhere around page 21.  Kind of
spendy, but worth it.  Don't store the piano on the transporter or the
keybed will warp slightly.  Comes back into regulation after sitting on
the legs for awhile.  Don't ask me how I know.

Hope my date and time is correct on my computer now.  Appears it reset
itself last night.

Tim Coates

"David M. Porritt" wrote:

> Tim:
>
> What kind of "transporter"?
>
> dave
>
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> 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
>
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> David M. Porritt
> dporritt@mail.smu.edu
> Meadows School of the Arts
> Southern Methodist University
> Dallas, TX 75275
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