The sun., 1901-10-13
PRESENT DAY PIaNO MOVING,
About One-Third of the Planes Hoisi~d
In or Out Of MIndoMs Now.

The busiest season in our business.
.aid a piano mover. extends from the
latter part Of September 10 ia" earlier
part Of October Our mex, busiest season
l. about the Christmas holidays Among
the many Christmas gifts made therr are
hundreds Of pianos. which. Of course, all
have 70 IT, delivered Next. for activity,
cornes the MAY moving -'ason.
-Of all the pianos moved Ia tho city one
third perhaps. arr now hoisted ia or out
The hosting of pianos came To be common
with the great incr-a-.' ia tn" numb-r %
fslhuusa- Then some ~ tn" hoisting IL
due naturally to IA" greatly increased
number Of pianos nov used There was
never time when there were 50 many
pianos used A. now Anybody that wishes
can buy piano in thesc DAYS, and pianos
are to IT, found iu use everywhere.
We never hoist a piano that can he car
rieu m. the hosting. of course. costing
morr money The record time for piano
hoisting? | guess there isn't any. t-'caus'
the conditions may vary greatly Thre"
men. experts at the business and with suit
able tackle and with conditions that we're
fairly favorable could put piano into
third or fourth-story window and wherever
It was 20 stand. and 60 away leaving every
thing behind them In order, within an
hour from the time they drove up with
the piano on the truck work that often
used to take three or four hour hi-
comes from long exIrrienC" and IN" p"ri~i
systematizng Of the work
While there are many stairways that
piano cannot ~ carried up, th" windoWs
arr almost invariably amply large enough
TO permit of taking piano into IN" hou-'
without anv great trouble nv hosting
But this l. not Away the ca-' W" hoisted
into a hottsa while ago a piano that had
been carriei ther ouc' and taken away
again b..au-r they couldn't gei u through
the only window through which II must
20 II IL wrnt through any They sent Tor
ts and when We came TO look the ground
over We found IN" window Ia H. half an
inch wider than the piano, which would
give quarter ~ an inch clear on either
side That might seem a. good a. "A quarter
OF n mil, on cit her side. far ~ getting
the piano through was cnncrrned. and 80
II would have been n the piano had beSrn
something that you could PICK up and
hold In YOUR hand lik" a paper box. But
with the wrappings around u and the straps
absolutely nec~sarv 10 ~'stain it- weight
when II was -usI-nd"d, tn" pianos bulk
was So incrpassd that Il considerably mor-
than took up that half-inch leeway, and
Il simply wouldn't 60 through.
We got this piano In. however by wrap
ping and singing II IN such manner that
We could grt one end of II free and clear
within the window on the windowsill,
and then We worked II through gradually,
getting an inch on n AT a tim" We would
crowd the wraps and straps hack an inch
and get the piano that much. and W. kep,
rrI.ating this until Ne had got the bulk
of the piano inside and then of course w.
could strip II entirely, ana tho r-t was
comparatively easy
-Are ,i,nus ever DROPPED IN huisiing
th,.ms Not very often ! knew of case
unCs- in wnica n plai.o tlai was being taken
out 10 lou>" from q fourth i"or soi away
ju~t ~ thew got il clear 10 the window SpIn"-
n irg ga" ~av and down won't IA" piano,
knoCking a chunk a.! -inn" uti ot IN" Cupi'
~ each window under u on IN" way down.
smashing th' railing IN fru't of the hytr.'
At 'h. sidewalk and dr,i,plng into an npv,,
n heap ~ ectpI Rui such accidents ar
rarr. remarkably 90. considering IN" ri,at
ttrmter 80 PIANOS Eoi~."d. ard '.l"v ar likely
"a hapI "u only o. iuvNJ-rru'sd mover.
Tn. inan WIN n,Hs,- n lii~i'sS- 81 tnnNiuF
pianos is m NV -ur' o. ls'k ~'ripulpuslv
after hiS tackle and =, MAX" NJ nisiak"
| ~ what he makes fn-' 80. W" takes th''
vr,I-r pr-caL'tun-, ant ~ rub pmro-
arr hois'~d without ni-hap
And tho numl-r titus hNuilet l. NV
very hrgr slnuh say thn' IN th" h'''ghi
~ N. tsi--si ---a-ni, 'lrp' az of -''n"
dsyS handh'd IN 'hi- nI lt't IN N'N N't'
n. many a. hGrdus' Iian"s, "a" t'al
uumler 81 pianos muNtsl uu ~drh a tAN
l-.ins perhaps NJ o. ~" ,,ulr-- nf n v'or
th.. uusnll~f ~ pisnp~ unN.st b. ~ ou', 90
both wavs. hy hois'ing runs up int 'i''
u.ousand- sud wlsi vas ono. m'r' go
l--> of q u'Vsfv IN Ii.n. moving t. nov an
,,yfv dan N.sfurs ~ A