harpsichord moving?

[C. E. Hood]

So what's wrong actually with the three individual 'caster cups' you referred to?  if somebody gets excited they could push one leg off its cup, but you can do this with a bigger dolly too, as Malcolm Bilson did with one of my fortepianos at UW-Madison, on his way down the hall to the concert hall after he carefully did his own tuning. :^(    I think you could make a 'piano truck' for a particular hpschd or fortepiano with caster cups and strips of maple and bolts - metal might be overkill.
      Best, Margaret




-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Johnson <johnsond@stolaf.edu>
To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:27:20 -0600
Subject: Re: harpsichord moving?

For what it may be worth-- we had a similar problem with finding a safe
means to move our fortepiano on and off and around the stage.  After some
checking around, I ended up having Jansen modify a concert piano truck to
fit this 8' piano. We added wood blocks to the square plates that accept
the tapered legs of the piano. Seems to work fine, except that it moves
while playing a little more than we like.  Not suggesting someone use those
heavy trucks on a harpsichord, but in my experience the Fortepianos pose an
even bigger problem.  We just carry the harpsichord when needed, but it
also happens to be fairly light.

good luck-

dennis johnson

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