Piano Movers

One week from today, Alicia and her pianist Kevin Garnica are giving a recital in the barn.  The Friday night performance begins at 7pm.  Saturday afternoon at 2pm they will be doing another.  The Fair Play Arena and concert hall is the venue.

Previous years we have been able to rent a piano from Steinway in Spokane and Music City, also in Spokane.   Both companies will no longer rent to us so we decided just to move our own piano in to the barn!

Reynald spent a great deal of time researching piano moving equipment and when it was all said and done, he was about $200 over what it would cost to rent.  Now we have the equipment so the next recital we will be money ahead!

With some engineering ingenuity, with help from Crayton, very little lifting was involved and our piano now sits in the top of the barn, waiting for  this wonderful concert that will take place next weekend.

A few photos of the process:

Piano flipped up and on the moving sled.

Leaving the music room in our house.

Out on the east porch, headed down the stairs.

Safely arrived on the patio!

Moving the ramp from the stairs to the horse trailer.

Lining up to the ramp.

Up the ramp and in to the horse trailer

Made it!

Next up the stairs in the barn.

The winch that will pull the piano up the stairs.

Hooked on and up we go.  

Arrived to the top of the barn without incident!

Still need to set up chairs, but we're making progress.  

Next week Alan will come and do some mechanical work on the piano and tune it.  Kevin arrives on Thursday.  Alicia and Kevin are doing an interview on Spokane Public Radio Friday morning and then the concerts Friday night and Saturday afternoon.  I'm looking forward to the coming week!