[CAUT] rolling pianos with oversize brass casters?

[Jim Busby]

John,

Watch out for the lyre too! I had some gorillas break one  right off on a B. The floor was unlevel enough to snag it. Bam! Good thing it wasn't a leg!

Jim Busby

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Roger Jolly
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:54 PM
To: jminor at illinois.edu; caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] rolling pianos with oversize brass casters?

Hi John,
              As long as you use 3 people and lift, to ease the weight over the threshold there should be no problem.   The problem starts when you hit the threshold at any kind of speed.
With good hard wood legs no problem.  Cheap mahogany legs there will be an issue.
I have one piano that I had a welder weld 3 face plates to a Y shaped 1" square tubing frame. the plates are screwed directly to the legs.  It has worked extremely well, only cost about $200.00 and looks a lot better than the Universal dollies. No pedal height issues.
I'm in Indonesia at the moment, but will try and remember to take pics when I get back.

Regards Roger



At 02:37 PM 2/4/2009, you wrote:

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
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