Flat Rolling Dolly

[brook-boddie]

I play in a hospice regularly and am trying to find an easy way to move my harp from room to room without using a standard harp dolly.

[stan-guy]

Hi, Brook —

[m-l-mcneel]

Stan,

You’re right.

[joann-buice]

Brook, I play every week at a hospital and have built a platform that fits my harp,

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

Any flat, ordinary dolly could be used. However, having the harp elevated is dangerous, they can easily tip over off of a dolly, so you must have your hands on it at all times. They are easy to use, but you must be very careful with them.

[Tristan Adair]

Hello,

I worked fulltime in a residential hospice for 5 years and after suffering wrist pain from carrying my harp around, had to figure this one out. Of course it all depends on your harp and its size. I used a rolling secretary’s chair with a well padded back and seat and put the harp on its back onto the seat, and would roll from room to room. I used a little backback attached to the back of the chairback for my tuner, wrench, etc. I could wheel into the room, easily put the harp on its feet, and sit down on the secretary chair, ready to go in seconds. I use a Musicmaker’s Gothic 31 but currently use a small harp driving, out in the community. This chair was my regular office chair from my cubicle there, so you may want to ask someone at the hospice for a rolling chair of your own, or borrow each time you are there. My carpel tunnel healed.

[Tristan Adair]

Hi Joann, I would love to see a picture of this.

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