There is more thinking on this. Ever played a piano on a dolly vigorously? It wears you out and soaks up your energy into those big steel springs down there. Dollies are great for safety. If you want the pianist to enjoy the piano make little wooden wedges to tap in under the front legs for each concert. Paint them black and no-one will be the wiser, except perhaps an inattentive stagehand who can't move the piano. ;-) Andrew Anderson On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Mike Kurta wrote: > I believe the current thinking is just the opposite. From what > I've read, the aim IS to decouple the piano from the floor so as not > to drain the sound away from the piano. Isolating the instrument is > thought to increase the sound quality coming from the piano > especially on carpeted surfaces-another reason (among the obvious) > for using caster cups. > Mike Kurta, RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090306/11a926b5/attachment.html>
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