{"id":1497,"date":"2007-04-13T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T19:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/movers-drop-88000-bosendorfer-piano\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T19:44:28","slug":"movers-drop-88000-bosendorfer-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/movers-drop-88000-bosendorfer-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Movers Drop $88,000 Bosendorfer Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Hold on kiddies, this is going to be a bumpy ride!” Movers dropped an $88,000 concert grand piano from a truck in England, and the whole thing was caught on camera. Here are pictures of the unfortunate event. I’m sure glad I wasn’t the one that dropped Bosendorfer on the ground, but at least I can giggle a little at the photos here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving a piano is all about leverage and balance. I’ve seen a single expert dismantle and move a baby grand piano by themselves. I remember many moons ago having to deliver pianos when I worked sales in a piano showroom. It sure isn’t easy if you don’t have it down to a perfected system.<\/p>\n

My favorite picture is the fourth one where the guy has his hands over his head as the shock of what just happened hits him.<\/p>\n

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The half-ton instrument was dropped as it was being brought into the home of the organizers of an annual music festival in Devon, England.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The famed Bosendorfers piano was purchased at an auction for 45,000 British pounds, or just over $88,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A couple had spent two years raising the money for the piano, which was to be the highlight of this year’s music festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was insured for $50,000. It was sent to London, where experts were assessing the damage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The owner of the piano, who never got to play a note, said it’s unlikely it will ever be the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe Bosendorfer is considered to be the Stradivarius of the piano world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this last photo it looks like the piano movers who dropped the piano got confused and are trying to plant the Bosendorfer in the ground. Which begs the question: What kind of fertilizer would you use to grow a piano?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hold on kiddies, this is going to be a bumpy ride!” Movers dropped an $88,000 concert grand piano from a truck in England, and the whole thing was caught on camera. Here are pictures of the unfortunate event. I’m sure glad I wasn’t the one that dropped Bosendorfer on the ground, but at least I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-o9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}