The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27
PRESENT DAY PIANO MOVING.
About One-Third of the Pianos Are
HOisted in and Out of Windowz

The busiest season in our business. ;,
SAD piano mover, extends from the
latter part of September to the earlier
part of October. Our next busiest sason
is about the Christmas holidays. AMONG
the many Christmas gifts made there are
h holloreos OF planos which, of course, all
comes the May moving season. - ;
Of all the pianos moved in the civ
one-third, perhaps, are now hoisted In
OF OF our. Inc hosting of pianos came to
the number of f1athouses Then some
OF the hosting is due naturally to the
sreatly increased number of pianos now
tIs' mere was never a time when
tneIe were so many pianos used as now
anybody who wishes can buy piano
IN tnese days, and pianos are to he foun6
IN use everywhere. ~--o
we never hoist piano that can be
oalIleo IN the hosting, of course, costing
more money. The record time for n;an0
Holsllng guess there isn't any. becanse
me, rne conoltlons may vary greatly. Three
s enit, eAp 9 at the business and with
suitable tackle and with conditions that
We're 1a!rly favorable, could put q niano
INTO third or fourth-story window Ga
Wherever 1t was to stand, and go away
Wits WHITE eVerythlng behind them in order
WIlilIn an hour from the time thew drove
up with the piano on the truck. wort.
tnat often used to take three or four
hours. IhlS comes from long experience
work. oI the
While there are many stairways that
q pldno cannot be carried up. the win
IONS are almost Invariably amply large
the 6o,,s ~ permit OF taking piano into
LIZ .ouse without any great trouble nv
holsting. But this is not ALWAYS thy
case. We hoiSted into a hoDsa . I,yreiio
ago piano that had been carried there
once and taken away again because ~,
couldn't get it through the onlV vii, . jo5S,
tInreugh which it must go if il VAN
1nrough any. They sent for us ana
W wn I've, we came came to look the ground over
WIDER than the piano. which wonlJ t 80
a; Quarter of an inch clear on either SIDE
df nat lnlsht seem as good as a quarter
t ~ q MI ME on either side, as far as get
lng the piano through was concer5eS
ana SO 1t would have been if the niann
had oeen something that you could MOL,
up ana mold in your hand like naner
oo5' put with the wrappings around it
ana the straps absolutely necessary to
sustain its weight when it was sjsnen6.
ea' the piano bulk was so increased thai
II considerably more than took IN thai
a "a linen ieeWay. and it simply wouldn't
we got this piano in, however. by
wrapping and singing it in such a man,
n ned tnat we could get one end of it free
W win vlea tn, WITHIN the window on the
WINDOW SILL, and then we worked II
through gradually, getting an inch on il
81 lme We would crowd the wrans
4 aiano straps tr back an, inch and get the
AAaNSllJ anu we Kept r0neatin0
i inIs until We got the bulk of the piano
inside, and then of course we could strin
II entirely, and the rest was compare
lively easy ipoi q
Are pianos ever dropped in hoisting.
tnem! Not very often I know of q
case once In WfAeh a piano that was be-
fIS taken out Of house from a fourth
moor got away just as they got it clear
oI lhe WINDOW. Something gave way
ana down went the piano, knocking a
cHunk OF stone out of the coping of each
Wlndow under it on the way down, smash
ms the raining III front of the house AFT
the sidewalk, and dropping into an area,
neap or scrap. But such accidents are
rare; remarkably so considering the
great number of pianos hoisted and they
are are likely to happen only to inexper-
Fenced movers. The man who makes a
business of moving pianos is pretty sure
TO look scrupulously after his tackle and
70 make no mistake in what he makes
IasI TO. He takes the proper precautions
ana as a rule pianos are hoisted with
out mishap.
And the number thus handled is now
very large. / should say that in the
helght or the busiest season there are on
some days handled in this manner in
New york as many as hundred pianos
the total number of pianos moved on
such a day being perhaps 300. In the
course OF year the number of pianos
moved IN or out, or both WAYS bv
hosting, runs up into the thousands;
and what was once more or less of a
novelty in piano moving is now an eyerv-
day feature of it.-NeW York Sun.