[CAUT] Moving Grand Pianos Intra-Department

[Dennis Johnson]

Hi-

We have an agreement with one of the movers from the city, about 30 miles
away, but that works since we have such a large moving expense budget.
It's an item of the budget we all dream of cutting back on but that's
unlikely to happen until we get a proper large concert hall.  As is, for
prominent concerts we are regularly moving pianos back and forth to the
chapel or the main gym.  Set up, tear down, storage, piano moving, etc...
are all huge consequences of not having a proper hall large enough for the
big ensembles.  Our facilities do set up and tear down of the portable
stage and move other equip such as raisers, but they do not touch pianos.
I'm ok helping or supervising move of an upright on the dolly or carrying
the harpsichord around the building as needed. Generally it's easy to get
those who benefit from the move to help so I'm not stuck with it alone.

good luck,

Dennis Johnson
St. Olaf College

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On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu
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> 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
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>  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
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> 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.
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> 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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