OK there Alan - You've had some interesting and funny replies, so let me be a bit of a Debbie Downer. WHY? Why are you moving a (grand?) piano a long distance on a dolly? Why are you employing (?) a group of high school students? Do the kids have insurance? Do you, or your institution have insurance? Do their parents know? I like Ron's reply, but it should have looked more like this: >Inadvisable. If there's ANY way not to, don't. > >If not: > >Supervise! Someone of legal age needs to be there to fill out the >accident report paperwork. If there's ANY way not to, don't. >Lid down, fall board closed. I know, but it's not necessarily >obvious to high school kids, some of whom have likely never thought before. If there's ANY way not to, don't. >No more than three touching the piano at any given time. Trade off >as they get tired, with the rest of the crew over there out of the >way. Steering and speed control by mob whim can quickly become the >end of piano function as we know it. Also dangerous for the moving >units, whether they understand that or not. If there's ANY way not to, don't. And so on... And, of course, if there is any chance at all of some calamitous mishap, you should, obviously, have someone filming it. There has to be some good to come out of all this. David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY At 11:21 AM 7/21/2010, you wrote: >In a few days, I will be moving a piano on a stage dolly a long >distance with a group of high school piano students. We are not >turning it on its side on a skid board, but simply pushing it. What >collective wisdom should I be to impart to these impressionable >youths about how the do-s and don't-s of pushing around pianos? > >Thanks, > >Alan Eder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100721/df47a2b9/attachment.htm>
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