Piano Funnies for August 12, 2003

[Farrell]

Would there be enough metal in an 1830s Broadwood to sink it - let alone use it for a boat anchor?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Piano Funnies for August 12, 2003


> At 17:05 08/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 12:46 PM -0500 8/13/03, Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:
> >>... My addlepated self remembers a square in the surf,
> >
> >And that it was.
> >
> >>and a distinctly _non_ square sound when it was played.  I suppose I'm 
> >>mis-remembering that, too.  ;-{
> >
> >You're not.
> >
> >Keith McGavern
> 
> 
> Re: the movie "The Piano"
> 
> Rented the video tonight, fast forwarded through the entire thing.
> 
> The only piano fully shown is a Broadwood square (tight shot showing the 
> nameboard near the beginning).  I'm not an expert, but it looks to be about 
> an 1830's vintage.  It somehow managed to sit in the surf for a few days 
> without any case/veneer damage OR sinking into the sand - it was on it's 
> feet.  It looked like a packing crate with piano legs.
> 
> The piano was not thrown overboard as in the previously posted picture, 
> rather it fell out of a large Maori canoe.  The last scene in the movie is 
> of it resting on the bottom.
> 
> I didn't read all the credits, so I don't know if there is a disclaimer 
> stating that no pianos were harmed in the making of the movie...
> 
> 
> 
> Conrad Hoffsommer
> 
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> 
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