plates, flying and otherwise

[Annie Grieshop]

Here's something that's been bothering me for a few days:  has anyone on
this group actually been in the vicinity of a plate breaking?

I've heard lots of dire warnings (and they all make a great deal of sense!),
but I'd like a first-hand report from someone who has witnessed spontaneous
self-destruction (or the immediate aftermath).

Not fire, not sledge hammers, not gravity, not chainsaws, not trebuchets --
a piano that gave up the potential energy ghost on its own, of its own
volition.

It's been fun to consider what the sequence of events would be, but now I'd
appreciate hearing from someone who's been there, done that.  (Tell me
horror stories!  Scare me even more about that dratted Brambach! <g>)

Thanks, as always.

Annie Grieshop