On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:02:10 +0100, endymion wrote:

"Graeme" wrote in message
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In message , Bill
writes



Slightly off on a tangent, but just how heavy, and difficult to move,
is an upright piano?

My wife would love one (she plays, but does not have a piano), and have
seen them on Freecycle occasionally, but are put off by the imagined
(?) problems of moving, tuning etc.

I cant say how heavy it is but it is HEAVY! Its on castors ( I guess
most are) and when I moved we wheeled it in and tugged it up a couple of
steps. When I had it originally it took me and one other person ( male)
to lift it up 15 steps! It was a job and I was much younger then. My
current home is a bungalow so when we moved here it came along
relatively happily. However, I know even removers job at moving piano's.

Getting it tuned is relatively painless except for the cost - 45 quid a
time.

I really just want to move mine because I dont use it. I cant play. I
want a new carpet and cant put one down because its so difficult to work
round the piano and its a bit in the way.

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There's a DIY video on the subject of moving pianos - courtesy of Laurel
and Hardy.

Cic.
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