Where are all these pictures? I only saw 4... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 4/11/2010 1:53:57 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] How NOT to move a grand piano >William Truitt wrote: >> I accept your premise about the two feet in the truck, judging from the >> pictures. Even if it did "just clip", that still begs the question - Why >> wasn't somebody watching? >They probably were, just not in the right spot at the right >time, like we all have done thousands of times. They just got >unlucky and didn't get away with this one. >>And why didn't they spin it sideways on the gate, >> as virtually everyone has suggested? To borrow a phrase from Forrest Gump, >> "Stupid is, as stupid does." >That's starting to look like a possibility. What makes you >think they didn't? Where are the pictures of the piano in >place and the gate lowering? I went looking for them. I see >the truck arriving. I see them setting the dolly, using the >gate to lift, and I see them wheeling the piano on the dolly, >out onto the gate. Then I see the piano on the ground. The >picture of them with the piano in place on the dolly and the >gate going down is curiously missing. Why? There are pictures >of the reaction of the crew immediately after the dump, and >further pictures of onlookers and the rescue attempt with the >front loader, so the photographer was apparently documenting >as much of the process as possible. >> If he doesn't understand why it happened, I definitely wouldn't hire them >> for the next move, bad luck or no. But judging from the worldwide >> publicity, they are probably getting fewer calls anyway. >I'm sure that's true, which is why I think it would be nice to >see the real sequence of events in the photos. This, >naturally, is better press, whatever damage it does. >Ron N
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