[AT] OT - piano

[Bob Seith]

I used to live in Newton, Massachusetts, an older but nice neighborhood 
outside Boston. Full of big Victorian houses, many of which were being 
bought and fixed up by younger couples.

One day, when driving home from work, I went down one of the nicer 
tree-lined streets, past a place that had been on the market for a while 
and had recently sold. A younger couple had bought it. They had a grand 
piano. They tried to move it in a rental truck, apparently with the 
husband's college buddies assisting. They didn't use a piano board, nor 
did they remove the legs and such. Somehow they wrestled the piano onto 
the truck and got it to the new location, where it looked like they 
would try to get it inside through the massive double front doors.

Never got the chance. In trying to get the piano off the truck, somebody 
let the balance slip. The grand piano flipped upside down and was 
resting on the front lawn, all three legs sticking up in the air. The 
guy and his buddies were standing around it, dumbstruck. Maybe they were 
considering shooting it and putting it out of its misery.

Upside down is NOT a preferred piano storage position.

Bob Seith

George Willer wrote:

>David,
>
>I don't think you're missing anything, if you have a couple human forklifts
>to handle the piano dollies at both ends of the trip.
>
>Be absolutely certain you have the piano secured tightly enough that there's
>NO possibility of it rocking in relation to the trailer.  I remember a tale
>of a rocking piano rocking so violently that it jumped over the side of the
>pickup that was hauling it. (the pickup was not controllable during the
>event).  Although it was a very valuable Seeburg E orchestrion, the driver
>didn't even stop to examine the wreckage.
>
>The owner lived about 6 miles from me.
>
>George Willer
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