Harrington news

Grand piano arrival

Tuesday, March 15, two men from Big Al’s Moving arrived at the Harrington Opera House with the new Boston 7’1” grand piano by Steinway which they disassembled, wrapped and carried up the wide, old staircase (about 30 steps total) to the opera house auditorium. Should anyone really want to know what that process looked like, one observer commented that “these two men were like a well-oiled and high-powered machine, with a ‘whoof’ at each and every stair which seemingly set the cadence to the motion with Big Al’s voice.”

Onlookers had been advised before the ascent that if fo...