Pianos - don't do this at home!

[Dave2002]

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJzG7CSYg3U

Could have gone on (off) Platform 3, but heck, it's "about" musical instruments!

It's all over rather quickly.

[french frank]

Hmm, can't help feeling there would have been a way of recycling various bits. It looks/looked like solid timber. Piano hinging? Wire? Metal?

:-(

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hmm, can't help feeling there would have been a way of recycling various bits. It looks/looked like solid timber. Piano hinging? Wire? Metal?

:-(

Exactly.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

On the more general topic of pianos, many people buy them from new and then never have them tuned of maintained in any way.

Ask the same people whether they ever have their cars serviced, and they look at you as though you're crazy.

[MrGongGong]

Look what Bill did

[Flay]

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJzG7CSYg3U

Could have gone on (off) Platform 3, but heck, it's "about" musical instruments!

It's all over rather quickly.

That's a well and truly prepared piano! Perhaps we could commission Philip Glass to compose something for it?

(It always upsets me to see any piano being junked. Surely somewhere there could have been a home for it?)

[Dave2002]

Look what Bill did

Somehow I had a hunch that you'd respond to this.

http://www.billthompson.org/theburningharpsichord/

http://billthompson.bandcamp.com/

http://billthompson.org/media.htm

http://billthompson.bandcamp.com/album/shifting-currents

[Dave2002]

That's a well and truly prepared piano! Perhaps we could commission Philip Glass to compose something for it?

(It always upsets me to see any piano being junked. Surely somewhere there could have been a home for it?)

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

[MrGongGong]

There's a long tradition of these things

[Dave2002]

There's a long tradition of these things

Indeed. I can't find a video of this, though - although I think there was one - http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/...ge-2545219.php

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hmm, can't help feeling there would have been a way of recycling various bits. It looks/looked like solid timber. Piano hinging? Wire? Metal?

:-(

[Serial_Apologist]

Jimi Hendrix had a lot to answer for...

[ahinton]

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

Ouch indeed. This always brings back memories to me of a similar incident that occurred to a magnificent Bösendorfer that had been hired for the use of Jonathan Powell for three days of recording sessions for a couple of Sorabji CDs several years ago. The venue was a church in southern England and the piano was tto be removed from the church over the weekend for use elsewhere and then returned to the venue for three more days of Sorabji recording. Whilst I fortunately did not witness the said incident, I was horrified to be told that the team moving the instrument out behaved as though they were on a high of some kind and were fooling around during the move, as a consequence of which the piano got tipped over and fell upside down onto the church floor. Not only was the damage to the piano irreparable, but that to the church floor cost a great deal to repair, which is perhaps unsurprising when one bears in mind that the instrument wieght just over 550kg. The hirer's feelings about what had happend may easily be imagined and were compounded by the fact that he had agreed to hire his piano for the second week but could now no longer do so; he met his obligation to the record company by generously hiring out his own personal Bösendorfer 290 (what a good thing that hd had one!) for it so that the sessions could continue as planned. Unsurprisingly, this piano was delivered to the venue by a different firm of piano movers...

[OldTechie]

Indeed. I can't find a video of this, though - although I think there was one - http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/...ge-2545219.php

Just a still from his site

[Flay]

Is this piano abuse?

http://bcove.me/4sulc113

Credit to her, IMHO