| I remember the day I got the call. A friend called me | | | | hardwood floors refinished and no way was he going |
| and asked if I would mind coming over to help him | | | | to drag this heavy piano with it's small metal wheels |
| move a piano that he had been given from a friend of | | | | across them. |
| his. Like a lot of younger people, I was used to helping | | | | When everyone arrived and we tried for 20 minutes |
| people move and agreed to the task, figuring it would | | | | to get the piano to budge from the front porch our |
| take us an hour at best to move the piano into his | | | | minds quickly shifted to how we could raise enough |
| house, especially since he had 3 others coming as well. | | | | money to hire a moving team to do this heavy work |
| When I arrived I was greeted with this fantastically | | | | for us. It was then that someone suggested we buy a |
| large upright grand piano that was perched on his front | | | | piano dolly! |
| porch. It was intimidating. I had seen upright pianos | | | | We went to a piano store, selected an upright piano |
| before but never an upright grand. It stood five feet | | | | dolly and were able to easily get the piano onto the |
| eight inches tall and weighed a ton. I tried to lift it just to | | | | dolly and rolled it right into the living room, where it still |
| get a feel for the weight and it did not budge when I | | | | stands today, almost 20 years later. The piano has |
| gave it my best effort. | | | | proven too heavy to ever move again. If he does ever |
| I looked down at the underside of the piano and | | | | need to move it a piano dolly will be the only way to |
| instantly felt relieved. The piano had wheels that were | | | | get it to budge. Because of the piano dolly none of us |
| going to make this move a lot easier to complete | | | | had to strain hard at all to move the giant piano into |
| without having a strained back. When I gleefully | | | | my friend's house. I strongly recommend using one the |
| remarked that it should roll right into the house my | | | | next time a piano move comes into your future. |
| friend turned and told me that he had just had his | | | | |