Something completely different

[Ron Nossaman]

I put a stage truck under a piano with double legs last week. This was the 
first time this had come up for me, and I wasn't entirely sure how I wanted 
to go about it, except I had already quoted them a price. Naturally. I 
pondered on some alternatives for a while, then went on-the-fly-engineering 
shopping. I ended up with lengths of thin wall round cornered steel tubing, 
1.5" x 3". Another trip to find a hole saw that would cut the mild steel, 
making holes for the legs' feet to fit into, with adequate clearance, on 
the top side of the tubing, and I had supports that were plenty strong, not 
unsightly, and didn't leave the piano any taller than a more usual single 
leg installation would have. The one thing I would have done differently in 
retrospect would have been to lay a piece of wood inside with smaller holes 
to fit the leg ferrules and keep them centered in the top clearance holes 
more securely. That could still be done if it proves to be necessary - at 
my expense.

Got lucky too, the truck was JUST small enough to fit the piano. Zero 
margin. Wow! Serendipity planning at it's best.

Ron N