I too once saw and heard a piano go over...an old ...

2007-04-11T23:40:00.000+01:00

I too once saw and heard a piano go over...an old "upright" I was moving it from one classroom to another with the help of the school custodian...and off the dolly it went. The sound was indescribable (although if I had to describe it in words I would say that it sounded something like like an old upright piano falling off a dolly and hitting a tile floor...) The overall aural effect was made even more dramatic by the screems of the Miss_____, the music teacher as the instrument went over. A sad day.

There must be a tradition for this sort of thing in Milwaukee. A year later a venerable old Hubbard harpsichord fell off the end of a truck onto the street near the local university It did not survive.

There is a piano moving company in this city called "Hernia Movers."
their motto is "The Potantate of Totin' Freight."

Perhaps they would have done a better job...

Jonathan Brodie

Incidentally, the The Guardian’s report gives a cl...

2007-04-11T19:25:00.000+01:00

Incidentally, the The Guardian’s report gives a clue as to whether the result would have sounded like a Tex Avery cartoon:

As its wooden casing splintered, it gave a death rattle described by Ms Adie as “a deafening noise like 10 honky-tonk pianos being hit by mallets”. Her husband John, the festival’s manager, said: “It made an incredible racket—like something from a cartoon.”

S, tig

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I too once saw and heard a piano go over...an old ...

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