[CAUT] Steinway in the hayloft???

[Otto Keyes]

Well Joe, I can get DOWN okay...gravity assisted, you know.  It's just
the return trip that gives me the problems these days.  :-)  (By the
way, I use a basketball.  Softball is a bit too painful.  Basketball
works wonders on the ol' spine!)

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com>
Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007 6:30 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway in the hayloft???
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>

> Hi Otto, Now you know why we are in the shape we are in >g<
> I can't even get down on the floor and do the soft ball thing for 
> the back.
> Joe Goss RPT
> Mother Goose Tools
> imatunr at srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Otto Keyes" <okeyes at uidaho.edu>
> To: <jminor at uiuc.edu>; "College and University Technicians" 
> <caut at ptg.org>Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 6:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway in the hayloft???
> 
> 
> > Mike Wathen will probably remember an incident in Sioux Falls (don't
> > know if you were in on that as well, Tim (Coates)) where we were 
> helping> Mark Kreitzer put a piano in a basement.  Customer was 
> renovating the
> > basement & said they never intended to remove the piano, but really
> > wanted it down there.  Unique piece with hammered copper or brass 
> relief> scenes on the front.
> > 
> > Mark had everything off that would come off -- action, keybed, arms,
> > etc.  Only thing left was glued together parts -- sides, feet & 
> strung> back -- still weighed a ton.  Curved staircase w/ sloping 
> ceiling & wall
> > at the bottom.  Had to start out on one end in the kitchen & be 
> turned> over once on the way down.  Got to the bottom with great
> > difficulty....only to find we had started on the wrong end & it 
> would> only go one way -- back up!  By the time we got it back up 
> to the
> > kitchen we barely had the strength to turn it over.  2nd time 
> down came
> > with experience, so went a bit easier.  I think I left Sioux 
> Falls just
> > so I wouldn't have to see that piano again!
> > 
> > Otto
> > 
> > 
>