You could always weigh the piano the way that they weigh small airplanes. Put a scale under each leg (3 total, all at the same time) and you can see the ratio of the weights for any piano. Of course, don't use your bathroom scale unless you want 3 broken ones... :-) But then again, who has 3 bathroom scales? :-) You could also figure exactly where the center of gravity is, too, with some simple math! Regards, Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC www.mccallpiano.com Murrieta, CA 951-698-1875 On Sep 08, 2010, at 15:04 , Richard Ucci wrote: > Putting new casters on. > > Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano > www.uccipiano.com > > > On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:38 AM, "Roger Gable" <roger at gablepiano.com> wrote: > >> Having designed my grand piano tilter for the last year to determine weight distribution of grand pianos, I can tell you that the weight distribution depends on the size of the piano. 9' pianos have slightly more weight distribution on the tail, but smaller pianos (around 6') have about 2/3 distributed on the 2 front legs with the bass leg taking approximately 55% of the 2 front legs. A 750lb. piano is commensurate to a 7' piano which would have approximately equal weight distribution on all 3 legs. Of course this varies with the manufacturer. >> Roger Gable >> P.S. Why did you need to know this?
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