[CAUT] pushing pianos

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David,


Thanks for your input on this.  These students are not being hired.  It's an educational thing, brainchild of their piano instructor, and part of their piano workshop for the day.  The question you raise about insurance is a good one--I'll have to look in to that.  By "long distance " I mean maybe a hundred yards or so (from one venue to another, on the same floor, through some doorways, withOUT turning it on it's side).

And, of course, if there is any chance at all of some calamitous mishap,you should, obviously, have someone filming it.  There has to besome good to come out of all this.
Count on it!


ae


-----Original Message-----
From: David Skolnik <davidskolnik at optonline.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 6:41 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] pushing pianos


OK there Alan -
You've had some interesting and funny replies, so let me be a bit of aDebbie Downer.  WHY?  Why are you moving a (grand?) piano along distance on a dolly?  Why are you employing (?) a group of highschool students?  Do the kids have insurance?  Do you, or yourinstitution have insurance? Do their parents know?  I like Ron'sreply, but it should have looked more like this:



Inadvisable. If there's ANY waynot to, don't.

If not:

Supervise! Someone of legal age needs to be there to fill out theaccident report paperwork.

 If there's ANY way not to, don't.



Lid down, fall board closed. Iknow, but it's not necessarily obvious to high school kids, some of whomhave likely never thought before.

 If there's ANY way not to, don't.



No more than three touching thepiano at any given time. Trade off as they get tired, with the rest ofthe crew over there out of the way. Steering and speed control by mobwhim can quickly become the end of piano function as we know it. Alsodangerous for the moving units, whether they understand that ornot.

 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 besome good to come out of all this.

David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson, NY





At 11:21 AM 7/21/2010, you wrote:

In afew days, I will be moving a piano on a stage dolly a long distance witha group of high school piano students.  We are not turning it on itsside on a skid board, but simply pushing it.  What collective wisdomshould I be to impart to these impressionable youths about how the do-sand don't-s of pushing around pianos? 

Thanks,

Alan Eder 



 
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