This should?only be done if there is a?person on each corner of the piano to take the weight off the leg as it crosses the gap. I would even suggest?this when the piano is on a truck. Some of you might recall pictures?I took of one of the D's at UA which the cleaning crew tried to "ram" over a door jam,and snapped all three?legs. Wim -----Original Message----- From: John Minor <jminor at illinois.edu> To: caut <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:37 am Subject: [CAUT] rolling pianos with oversize brass casters? Anyone have any issues with rolling concert pianos with the oversize brass casters across uneven floors? We have a space(3/4" gap with filled with caulk)with in the flooring between the offstage piano storage and the stage itself. For the most part we use the grand transporter from Jansen to keep the casters off the floor when moving on and off stage. But, we have the occasional request to move the piano onstage during the performance and it takes the stage crew a few extra minutes to remove the transporter once it is set in position on stage. Someone suggested moving the piano without the grand transporter. Anyone have legs snapping off, etc.? John Minor University of Illinois -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090205/040ec2e3/attachment.html>
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