The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-06-06
PLANO MOVING AN ART.
2."rained SIKH Well as strength
Needed to Get One Up or
Downstairs.

Piano moving" said a dealer in
pianos, lis business by itself. There
are truckmen who devote themselves to
this work, anG some whose business has
descended to them from their fathers.
Some piano manufacturers and Ctd4eFs
maintain their own trucking and piano
moving facilities, but with the IN
creased amount OF piano moving the
work has come to be more Of ii trace
now than ever. What with the multi
plcation Of Hat houses, and the ire
quent necessity OF carrying pianos up
Gvo hree or four flights u stairs. IT Is
work that calls nowadays more than
ever for the exercise Of sklll a. well as
strength.
Il suppose people generally realize
hhis, and nowadays most folks when
they want piano moved employ a
piano mover. But occasionally some
body has piano to move and TO save
dollar or two gets an eNpressman, or d
lruckman who is not piano specialist,
20 move his piano. And the eXpresSman
. or truckman very likely takes this joO
because he wants the money, and he
! thinks he's up 10 arythin" there is do
. pianos when they come his way. He
gets through with it, very likely. all
right; but sometimes u piano gets
away from him, and when it does it
. makes dusty work.
Il know of a case in which a piano
got away like that from an eXpressman
: who had undertaken 10 carry il up to
L fourth floor fat. He was a good eX-
pressman. all right, you know; he could
. handle anything in his way just "a
= well as anybody could, but piano NOV
ing was really not in his line. \ piano
is tremendously heavy thing. but 1
don't suppose anybody, except those
. that have tried il, know how hard
piano does sag back, when it's being
carried up a flight of stairs. The reg
= 1iar piano mover is more than strong.
Ie's an expert in this work, too. \
piano moving team hangs on to piano
not only with strength and constant
watchfulneSs. but with constant readi-
ness, and they work together with a
mutual helpfulness that makes them
practically invulnerable, and when a
bunch of men not skilled in this way
undertakes to carry piano upstairs
my ul4tSI IISh
Well the eXpressman and his men
got that piano up the first flight Of
stairs all right, and pretty nearly up to
The top of the second and then some |
thing happened. some body's foot |
slipped, or something, nobody knew |
just what, and it didn't make any diff |
ference with the result, anyway and |
the piano got loose. I never knew what |
1t did to the stairs or the house. ! never |
went there to see, but it broke one arm
and one leg of the eNpressman who was |
running the job and who was one of |
the men under the pianos heavy end: |
It was only by the mercy of Providence
that he wasn't ground and smashed |
into pulp, along with the two men with
aim at that end. They, in some miracu-
Gus way, escaped altogether
They took the wounded man to the
hospital, and there he stayed for
weeks. They brought the piano here
% see what we could do in the way of
repairing it. The back frame was
broken, the case was split and the
whole piano was wreck 1t would
nave cost 5000 to put il in order. and
then you wouldn't have been sure of re-
~'oiihS II 10 It's OflSlhai tOnGInOn. |
They took the piano away again. and
now they settled it all never knew
THE fact is that under present con
iltions piano moving calls more than
ever for the exercise not ONLY of
strength, but of special skill: and I
should not for a moment hesitate to say
that if one had piano to move. espe-
cially out of or into any difficult place.
the wisest thing he could do woulG be
TO employ piano mover"