----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Neuman" <piano@charlesneuman.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Junk Pianos Speaking of things to do with a piano... I saw an interesting ad on TV today for XFM, some sort of new radio band I think. They had musical instruments falling from the sky and crashing on the ground. Mostly stringed instruments. The grand finale was a grand piano that landed in the middle of the highway. Anybody see it? Didn't someone post a long time ago about helping someone shoot a scene with a flying piano? I think it was catipulted. That was probably something different than what I saw today. Charles > And hence the topic comes full circle. Who wants to start the trebuchet > thread??? > Personally, I'd like to see one at every National/Institute with the host chapter finally having their way with their prized posessions. "..spinets swimming in Lake Michigan.." Phil Yeah, it got talked about ... it's a recurring topic. I'd still like to see a controlled implosion sequence that would cause the piano to fold up on itself breaking itself up into pieces small enough to fit into standard trashcans with a minimum of parts flying outward. If we're going to go through the effort of designing and building a catapult capable of flinging a piano any great distance, I don't see why someone can't design the implosion sequence that would use the overall string tension to do the actual work. Afterall, the definition of a controlled implosion of a building is to deliberately bring about a planned structural failure with gravity doing the work of bringing the building down. Z! Reinhardt RPT witness of 2 planned implosions in Detroit Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net
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