Don-- It's just you. I found it with no problem and printed it out for a friend. Reminds me of another performance piece that I read about many years ago; more in the John Cage style, I suppose. For this one you use an upright, with carefully placed piezo or other contact mikes in and on the piano, and of course a few external mikes as well. Stuff the thing with kerosene rags inside and out and set it aflame. My personal variation on this would be to have a performer play something like Art of Fugue until the piano became too unsafe to play further, then retire to watch and listen. Very Zen, My only performance of this nature was when we scrapped out an old upright at the local dump, when the dump was arranged -- in less civilized times -- where the paved area was about eight feet above the landfill area. We brought the piano in a pickup truck, waved to the compactor operator, pointed to the piano, and then simply dumped it. While the compactor gleefully ran over it we thought we could hear it break, but maybe not: it was too noisy. Cheers, Dave Talcott Consultant
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