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[Warren Fisher]

wtscherer wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> For some reason I seem to have been dropped from the list. If any of you
> are posting concerning "Falling Pianos", could you please send me a copy
> separately until this problems is corrected? Thanks.
>
> Wally Scherer

Wally, here is everything I've gotten so far:

Subject:
           Re: Falling pianos
      Date:
           Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:43:46 -0500 (EST)
      From:
           lesbart@juno.com (Leslie W Bartlett)
  Reply-To:
           pianotech@byu.edu
        To:
           pianotech@byu.edu
           1


I was director of music at a small Texas town about twenty years ago
when
a new grand was delivered to the church.  The truck had a large lift, to
which the piano had been moved.  One of the two movers, however, was
deaf, and he evidently didn't "hear", lip read, or whatever, one of the
other's instructions.

The weight was shifted, for whatever reason, and the piano, out of
crate,
crashed to the pavement below, about four feet down, ruined, of course.
Looking back, since that was before I learned about piano stuff,  it
seems that was a great deal of "drop".

Leslie Bartlett M. Mus
Houston Chapter PTG
lesbart@juno.com

Subject:
         Re: Falling pianos
    Date:
         Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:51:10 -0500 (EST)
    From:
         Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net>
Reply-To:
         pianotech@byu.edu
      To:
         pianotech@byu.edu


That drop could not have occured without the let-off.

At 08:43 AM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>crashed to the pavement below, about four feet down, ruined, of course.
>seems that was a great deal of "drop".
>
>Leslie Bartlett M. Mus

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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Subject:
           Re: Falling pianos
      Date:
           Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:50:13 -0500 (EST)
      From:
           lesbart@juno.com (Leslie W Bartlett)
  Reply-To:
           pianotech@byu.edu
        To:
           pianotech@byu.edu
           1


Ah, there you have it!  I;ve not been in this business very long, and so
that never occurred to me............   But now it is certainly clear.
I wonder what the "blow distance" was when the poor chap got back to the
store?????????????????

Leslie


On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:51:10 -0500 (EST) Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net>
writes:
>That drop could not have occured without the let-off.
>
>At 08:43 AM 3/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>crashed to the pavement below, about four feet down, ruined, of
>course.
>>seems that was a great deal of "drop".
>>
>>Leslie Bartlett M. Mus
>
>Jon Page
>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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Subject:
         Re: Falling pianos
    Date:
         Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:57:36 -0500
    From:
         delgit@acc-net.com (Gittinger, Delbert M.)
Reply-To:
         pianotech@byu.edu
      To:
         pianotech@byu.edu


I've been moving pianos for 24 years.  Most of the time I move spinets,
consoles, and studios by myself.  The only time I have trouble is when
the
customer tries to help.

The only piano to fall was when I was letting the piano down the ramp
off
the back of my truck.  The man of the house was sure I needed the help I
had declined and began to "help" hold back the piano which was on a four
wheel dolly.  Of course his force pushed the high end of the piano to
the
side and off the ramp.  The piano ended up on its back with no damage.
In
fact it wasn't even scratched.  It had fallen on grass.  After rubbing
off
the grass stain on the back post I put it back on the dolly and into the
house.

The tuning was shaken some which was easily corrected with a quick pitch
raise/leveling tuning.

Del Gittinger,  RPT
Registered Piano Technician
of the Piano Technicians Guild
delgit@acc-net.com
Marion, OH

>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has an interesting story to tell about a
piano
> that fell. (Not in pitch.) Here's my story.
>
> Wally Scherer
>

Subject:
         Re: Falling pianos
    Date:
         Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:57:40 -0500 (EST)
    From:
         SGrossner@aol.com
Reply-To:
         pianotech@byu.edu
      To:
         pianotech@byu.edu


In a message dated 97-03-11 14:09:02 EST, you write:

<< I couldn't hold the whole weight, so it came crashing down on its
 bottom edge, then tumbled over on its back with a loud "broinnnnng" as
all
 the hammers hit all the strings at once. We stood there startled, in
 silence, just looking at each other. The manager came rushing out of
the
 store to see what had happened. >>

Same thing almost happened to me. My friend who was helping me at the
time
started singing "I just had to let it go" which had just come out by
John
Lennon. I laughed so hard I almost dropped it. Sam G. Chgo

I had a old upright get away from me after replacing the casters with
the big double tired rubber ones.  The rear wheels took the weight of
the piano before it was up high enough to stand, with obvious results.
The bottom came out of the tilter hooks, the piano slid "that-a-way" on
to its' back and squirted the tilter (and Me) t'other way like a couple
of watermellon seeds! Now, I clamp the tilter to a couple of back posts
with small bar clamps!

Warren


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Warren D. Fisher
fish@communique.net
Registered Piano Technician
Piano Technicians Guild
New Orleans Chapter 701