At 10:08 AM 2/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: >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 Bring it to a car crusher... Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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