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Festival Organizers Horrified by Piano’s Fall
11-Apr-2007
Written by: Jess Boettger
“Stradivarius of piano world“ was irreplaceable.
It was a scene that would have done Laurel and Hardy proud. The movers of a concert grand piano, in attempting to transfer the “Rolls Royce” of pianos with a hydraulic lift, accidentally sent the majestic instrument tumbling to the ground. The instrument suffered a traumatic tumble of some eight feet, coming to rest upside down on a bank. The tortured sound of the abused piano was like “10 honky-tonk pianos,” according to Penny Adie, the woman whose home the instrument was to grace.
The concert grand piano was intended to be played at the Devon music festival this spring, but now has been rushed to London to assess the extensive damage incurred. Adie, the organizer of the festival, had bought the piano at the bargain price of £26,000, and captured the moments before and after the fateful tumble on camera, thinking that it would mark a “highpoint” for the Two Moors Festival. The piano was insured for the £26,000 it was purchased for, not the £45,000 it is closer to in actual worth.
To put the loss in perspective, Mrs. Adie’s husband, John, said that Bosendorfers are the Stradivarius of the piano world. He called the instrument “irreplaceable.” Meanwhile, Brian Haigh, of the removals firm charged with the piano’s move, maintains that this has never happened to him before in 25 years of moving pianos.
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