Paul It would be very cost effective to have the university people do the moving. The school needs to buy the dolly, skid board, and blankets, but if you've observed enough moves you should be able to supervise the moves. If possible, try to get the same crew to do this every time, so you don't have to keep teaching what to do. Since I did a lot of moving myself in the past, I only supervised, but did half the work. But there is no need to be that much involved. Once the crew gets the hang of it, moving a piano is not that difficult. I used to move the uprights myself, even getting them up on a dolly. But if I was still at a school, I would now ask for help. Moving the grands on stage is for the students who are responsible for that. The most you might need to do is instruct them how to move a piano through a door. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Paul Milesi <paul at pmpiano.com> To: PTG CAUT List <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 12:22 pm Subject: [CAUT] Moving Grand Pianos Intra-Department We need to move a few grand pianos within our music department at school. o stairs are involved, just breaking down, relocating via dolly and levator, and setting up again. In the past, the department has used utside professional piano movers, both from a dealer and independent. I have suggested that this is not cost-effective, and indeed we now don't ave the money for imminent required moves. I have previously put forth the dea of using either students or physical plant/maintenance staff. Of ourse the student idea was shot down because of liability issues. But what bout maintenance staff? Although I am not a piano mover per se, I've robably witnessed enough moves and stood by insisting on removal of the yre, etc. to be able to instruct and provide guidance to those with the rawn I lack. What do those on the list think? How do your schools move pianos nternally, and what is your personal involvement? Do you supervise or nstruct/teach proper moving techniques? At $250 for one standard move, it eems to me that a change in policy here could save our department literally housands of dollars. While we're on the moving topic: Do you yourselves ever move uprights, or end a hand positioning pianos on a recital stage or in a studio? Just urious. Paul Milesi RPT ashington DC 202) 246-3136 Cell/Text aul at pmpiano.com ttp://www.pmpiano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20111204/f518f328/attachment.htm>
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