The Armored Upright

[Les Smith]

On Wed, 21 Feb 1996 TLGreene@aol.com wrote:

> Since they're built like tanks anyway, the Defence Dept toyed with the idea
> of putting treads and a gun turret on these old uprights that abound in the
> sunday school rooms throughout the country.  The idea was that if the guns
> didn't get the enemy then the troops could at least drive them crazy by
> playing yet another round of "Heart and Soul".  It would be all the more
> effective since the piano would always be out of tune, for being on treads it
> would be on the move and everyone knows that everytime you move a piano it
> goes out of tune right?  Apparently the project never got past congress.
>  They felt that it was too inhumane a weapon.
>
> Terry Greene RPT

It figures. Finally someone comes up with a constructive use for old
Kranich & Bach pianos and then Congress nixes the idea. They might have
gone for it if someone had mentioned the catapult option, too! :)

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net