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Zachary Hoyt 10-26-2012 18:48:00 184.12.70.70 Report to Moderator	I bought this spinet piano about 2 miles from home, I found it on Craigslist for $50 and it is in really pretty good shape, made in 1986. Don't have a truck or any strong friends so I slid it on a 4x5 pallet and loaded it in the wagon with the tractor. Not the Laurel & Hardy method, but it worked well enough for me. It is about a half step flat, so I will have to tune it over the weekend and probably again soon. I don't play piano myself but some visitors do and it would be interesting to learn. I took it apart to get it upstairs, one flight of ten steps, a landing with a 180 degree turn and then three more steps. My sister was kind enough to help with hauling the heavy part up the stairs. It only took about 2 hours to take it apart, move it and reassemble, and a lot of that was time spent figuring out how it came apart. The only tool needed was a Philips screwdriver. Zach [Reply]   [No Email]
Tim in OR 10-27-2012 21:55:58 67.189.86.181 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to Zachary Hoyt, 10-26-2012 18:48:00   When I was a kid, my neighbor asked my dad to help with a piano he had just acquired. They picked it up and hauled it in the back of a pickup (not tied in). When he was backing down around the house to the daylight basement, it slid out. As I recall it looked a lot like that last picture. Gook luck with the tuning. Tim in OR   [Reply]  [No Email]
VernMI 10-27-2012 03:16:31 209.86.226.60 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to Zachary Hoyt, 10-26-2012 18:48:00   Those pics make my back hurt. I moved ours across the room and it wasn't any picnic. Laid down plywood to roll it on and it left grooves in the plywood. Good if you use it otherwise it is firewood and scrap metal.   [Reply]  [No Email]
bobs old iron 10-26-2012 21:38:07 97.122.251.188 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to Zachary Hoyt, 10-26-2012 18:48:00   for a minute i thought you dropped the panio in the front room, after looking at the one pic...   [Reply]  [No Email]
Ralph Bauer 10-27-2012 01:14:05 75.107.18.96 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to bobs old iron, 10-26-2012 21:38:07   Thought the same as Bob, thought you might have tripped over an onion or something like that....lol! But really, what a great find!! Might want to wait with the tuning till it gets acclimatised to its new location (as my grandma used to say). Ralph in OK.   [Reply]  [No Email]
JerryS 10-26-2012 19:25:56 98.80.109.211 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to Zachary Hoyt, 10-26-2012 18:48:00   I'm glad I play the harmonica.   [Reply]  [No Email]
larry@stinescorners 10-26-2012 19:06:27 71.125.72.130 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to Zachary Hoyt, 10-26-2012 18:48:00   very good idea! It looks just like ours,ours is a Kimbel,the neighbor gave it to us,got some friends to help me move it ,as I was driving down the street,my friend was playing it on the back of my pickup!   [Reply]  [No Email]
larry@stinescorners 10-26-2012 19:04:55 71.125.72.130 Report to Moderator	Re: How to move a piano (tractor related) in reply to Zachary Hoyt, 10-26-2012 18:48:00   very good idea! It looks just like ours,ours is a Kimbel,the neighbor gave it to us,got some friends to help me move it ,as we were driving down the street,my friend was playing it!   [Reply]  [No Email]