Greetings. I am the Director of Performance Services at New England Conservatory in Boston. A member of our administration wants to have our Piano Technicians (whom I supervise) move our pianos (mostly a mix of Steinway B's, L's and M's) out of studios, into and out of the piano shop, etc. when the need arises. We have always hired an outside piano moving company to do all of our moves except for occasionally rolling an upright piano down a hallway from one room to another. What prompted this is a proposal to recarpet and paint seven faculty studios this summer. The proposal included an estimate of the cost to hire our movers to remove the pianos from the rooms, bring them to our piano shop for storage on their sides and then to return them to the studios once the work is done. Needless to say, the piano moving costs are considerable. Personally, I think it's inappropriate for piano techs to double as piano movers, but what do I know? I need a reality check: Is this something that piano techs at other colleges and universities do? If not, can you give me some good arguments why they shouldn't? Thanks. Brian Yankee Director of Performance Services New England Conservatory ******************************************************************* Brian S. Yankee Director of Performance Services New England Conservatory 290 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel: 617-585-1271 Fax: 617-585-1270 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20060602/cf7d27c9/attachment.html
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