This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment We had a similar leg breaking incident here with a "B" and a threshold. It was a piano that normally didn't move anywhere. If you like, I can get you the name of the young man who was moving the instrument and was but 2" from having his foot amputated. He can give a dramatically told story of his feelings when that hit the floor. That kind of money saving is what has made our legal profession as lucrative as it is. =20 dp =20 David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu ________________________________ From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron & Lorene Shiflet Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:03 AM To: tcole@cruzio.com; Pianotech Subject: Re: Baldwin SD-10 weight =20 no. It's a long story, I'll give you the short version. =20 School bought a Baldwin SD-10 new about 12 years ago for their stage. The school put it on 3 little individual piano trucks rather than the proper 1-piece unit. Costs less is better...right??? A couple of years ago the piano was getting pushed into another room and when it hit the threshold, the leg at the end shattered and the piano went down. Fortunately nobody was hurt and the piano damage was limited to the leg. The school had a local high school wood shop copy the leg and build a new one. The copy looks good. The school put the new leg on and the piano was put right back up on the wrong trucks again. =20 Now the front 2 legs are cracking. The school called me this time. My position is to replace all 3 legs with the factory originals and to put it on the 1-piece piano truck. My estimate is pretty high. The reason that I'm looking for the weight is to give them an idea as to what kind of damage is potentially there if the piano falls again. I dread the thought of an 1,100 pound concert grand falling on a 98 pound college freshman vocal major fresh out of high school. I've also looked at the price of a new piano. The money saved by doing it the hobby-tooner way is a false savings. =20 Ron =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Thomas Cole <mailto:tcole@cruzio.com> =20 To: Pianotech <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org> =20 Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Baldwin SD-10 weight =20 Pierce shows a "D" weighing in at 1078 lbs. Is that close enough? Is the piano going into a mobile home? =09 Ron & Lorene Shiflet wrote: =09 =09 Does anyone know the weight of a Baldwin SD-10? I can't seem to find it. =20 thanks Ron ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5a/39/48/47/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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