Pianos - don't do this at home!

[Bryn]

Jimi Hendrix had a lot to answer for...

'cept the guitar in question is now the proud possession of Dweezil Zappa, and is again functional:

[MrGongGong]

Is this piano abuse?

Not necessarily
but it's cr*p in more ways that I care to imagine

[pastoralguy]

Don't MIT have a ceremony every year where a piano is thrown off the faculty roof?!

[ahinton]

Not necessarily
but it's cr*p in more ways that I care to imagine

Indeed it could be said to be a kind of abuse, though perhaps no more so of the piano than of any of the participants; the expression "go to the bottom of the Klass" springs to mind (though not in the literal sense, of course)...

[ahinton]

Don't MIT have a ceremony every year where a piano is thrown off the faculty roof?!

I believe so, yes; now whether it, too, is supposedly seen by MIT as "symbolic" of something in the sense of seeking to denigrate the acoustic piano for what might be perceived as the regressiveness of its "technology" I have no idea. Charles Rosen's question as to why Duchable didn't do something more interesting with "his" piano, like selling it, could as well be put to those who particiate in this unedifying and surely uneducational ceremony...

[peterthekeys]

Sometimes there have been accidents - http://www.company7.com/bosendorfer/...7_275drop.html Ouch!

The best bit of this story is that Bösendorfer gave them a brand-new piano to replace the one which got trashed!