grand piano tilter (was piano horse, et al.)

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Richard, It is called the Piano Horse
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Adkins" <RADKINS@coe.edu>
To: <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: grand piano tilter (was piano horse, et al.)


> The Piano horse looks like a good way to avoid the
> lyre-ability issues. But do any of you recall seeing
> a one-man grand piano tilter/mover @ the KC
> convention (years ago now?)...
> 
> One guy can move a concert grand with this!
> 
> I saw one of these grand piano tilters at the
> Kansas City convention, but never saw another
> one. I believe it was made of aluminum I-beams or
> some such material. A concert grand could be
> upped on its side by one man, and loaded into
> a moving truck w/electric winch inside.
> 
> Once on this device it did not need to be tilted
> up to insert a dolly/or board, etc.
> 
> For those you us looking to solve the grand piano
> moving dilemma a device such as this might be
> the answer. 
> 
> All I could find on the internet was an old post below.
> Perhaps it became the piano horse. The device I
> describe above is quite different.
> Richard
> 
> MMD  Archives  August 1997  1997.08.28  13 Prev  Next 
> 
> Plans for Grand Piano Tilter
> By Bob Hunt 
> 
> For Terry Smythe -- I built a grand piano tilter designed very similarly
> to the familiar upright piano tilter for just the reasons you described
> in MMD.
> 
> It is designed to roll the piano from standing on its side, on padded
> 8-inch blocks, to the normal horizontal position and height where the
> legs can be re-attached and the "tilter" removed from under the piano.
> It is a one-man operation even with a Mason and Hamlin 6-footer!
> 
> The principle is that the center of gravity remains at about the same
> height, raising only a few inches as the piano goes from on its side to
> normal position.
> 
> I have plans somewhere which I will try to find for you.
> 
> Bob Hunt
> 
> (Message sent Thu 28 Aug 1997, 19:15:28 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.) 
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