The Worthington advance., 1901-03-08
PIANO LOWING AN ART &


VAAO WVIAS duV SOme WHOSE Ou3luSk8 H.
descended to them from their fathers,
Some piano manufacturers and dealers
maintain their own true king and piano
moving facilities, hut with the in
creased amount Of piano moving the
work has come to. be more Of q trade
now than ever. What with the multi
plication Of fat houses, and the fre-
queLt necessity OF carrying pianos up
two, three or four fights Of stairs, it il
work that calls nowadays more than
ever for the exercise of skill as well %
strength. E. - :>.ys.:s. Z !
II suppose people generally realize
this, and nowadays most folks when
they want q piano. moved employ q
piano mover. But occasionally some
body; has piano to move, and to save .
dollar or two gets an expressman. or .
.truckman who is not'a piano specialist,
to move his spiano. And the expressman
or truckman very likely takes this job
because he wants the money, and he
thinks he's up to anything there is do,
ing in his line, and that he can handle
pianos when: they come his way. He
gets through with it, very likely, all
right; but sometimes q piano gets
away from him, and when it does it
makes dusty work. - =.
II know of I case in which Q piano
got away like thatsfrom an expressman
who had undertaken to carryeit up ia
a fourth floor fiat. He was 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. "A piano
is tremendously heavy thing, but !
don't suppose anybody, except those
that have tried it, know how hard q
piano does sag back, when it's being
carried up a fight of stairs. The reg
ular piano mover is more than strong,
he's an expert in this work.. too. A
piano moving team hangs on to piano
not only with strength and constant
watchfulness, but with constant readi-
ness, and they work together with q
mutual helpfulness that makes them
practically invulnerable, and when q
bunch Of men not skilled in this way
undertakes to carry piano upstairs
they undertake big risk.
"Well, the expressman and his men
got that piano up the first fight o1
stairs all right, and pretty nearly up to
the top of the second, and then some.
thing happened, somebody'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. never knew what
it did to the stairs or the house, never
went there to see, but it broke one arm
ana one leg of the expressman who was
running the job and who was one OF
the men under the pianos heavy enc; ;
itwas only by the mercy of Providence
that he wasn't ground and smashed
into pulp, along with the two men with
him at that end. They, in some mira Gu
lous way, escaped altogether.
"They took the wounded man to the
hospital, and there he stayed fol
weeks. They brought the piano here
to see what we could do in the way OF
repairing it. The back frame wa,
broken, the: case was split, and til,
whole piano was a wreck. 1t would
have cost 5000 to put it in order, and
then you wouldn't have been sure of re.
storing 1t to its original condition.
They took the piano away again, and
how they settled it all 7 never knew.
The fact is that under present con.
ditions piano moving calls more than
ever for the exercise not only Of
strength, but of special skill; and !
should not for 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 would be
to employ piano mover.''