[CAUT] Moving Grand Pianos Intra-Department

[Paul T Williams]

I'm sort of "the foreman" kind of guy. Showing which piano, unlocking the 
rooms, and to where it gets moved.  I don't do anything but remove the 
lyre before they get there. then 2 guys lift the bass corner, and I knock 
off the leg so they can set it on the board. Tilt up, and while they're 
strapping it tight, I knock off the other two legs.  Then, tilt up, dolly 
under, set down, roll onto where we're going.  It's very fast.  We've 
moved 6 grands around the building in less than 1.5 hours!  We're a good 
team. we almost always start first thing at 7:30am before the students 
show up.

Paul




From:
David Skolnik <davidskolnik at optonline.net>
To:
caut at ptg.org
Date:
12/05/2011 08:56 AM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] Moving Grand Pianos Intra-Department



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Paul -
Moving Services. No one could argue with that.  I have one question.  If 
the guys know what they're doing, why do you have to take the lyre and 
legs off?  And I have a follow-up question.  Once you've gotten the legs 
off, how long does it take for the guys to show up?  Just trying to 
picture it all.

David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson, NY

At 08:44 AM 12/5/2011, you wrote:
We have a dept called Moving Services.  These guys have been moving pianos 
for us for decades.  They are dependable, fast, and know what they're 
doing.  Also quite inexpensive.  All I have to do is remove the lyre and 
legs. They do all the grunt work.  So it depends on what knowledge the 
university staff people have. If no knowledge, then I would call a 
professional piano mover. Our facilities and maintenance people don't 
touch the pianos.  For uprights, I and our own building/facilities manager 
move ourselves.  We will ask a student to place the dolly under the piano 
when we lift on and off, but that's all the students are allowed to do. 

Paul T. Williams RPT
Univ. of Nebraska 
Lincoln 





From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com> 
To: caut at ptg.org 
Date: 12/04/2011 07:13 PM 
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Moving Grand Pianos Intra-Department 




I once thought I could save some money, so I asked the facilities guys
to move an upright.  I don't do that anymore.  They didn't take
direction very well and of course they all, individually, knew the
best way, while I was standing there being ignored.  Never again.

If an upright needs to be moved more than a couple of feet, I'll get a
couple of students to help put it on a dolly etc.  For grands, the
college has to hire movers.  Movers are worth every penny. All the
reasons David S cited were right on.  If the piano is damaged, what
happens next?  If a person is damaged, then what?



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