Moving Uprights on their Ends

[Otto Keyes]

Take out Grandma's dampits -- quart jars of water.  This may fluff up those
hard hammers a bit more than might be desireable, though it may do wonders
for those overly boisterous bass strings.  :-)

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfley, Eric (WOLFLEEL)" <WOLFLEEL@UCMAIL.UC.EDU>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:46 AM
Subject: RE: Moving Uprights on their Ends


> Mike,
>
> I just had to move my newish P-22 into a room in my house that way and
there
> were no regulatory problems that I noticed as a result. Over the years
I've
> moved many pianos this way and the worst thing that ever happened was the
> soft pedal dowel falling loose from the action. Oh yeah...if anything is
> being stored inside the piano on the bottom board you will hear a kind of
> crashing sound.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Eric Wolfley
> Head Piano Technician
> Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
> University of Cincinnati
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorgensen, Michael L [mailto:jorge1ml@cmich.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 9:31 AM
> To: Caut@ptg.org
> Subject: Moving Uprights on their Ends
>
> Hello All,
>      Do I need to worry about any structural things if moving uprights on
> their ends?   A certain elevator is only 4' square, actually less due to
> hand rails.    I know some folks move them that way, but these are nice
> newish Yamaha P22s in perfect action regulation.
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Mike Jorgensen
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