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Piano Wreckage at Ithaca College
AIA-FL Blog ^ | December 16, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

Posted on 12/16/2009 10:47:27 AM PST by bs9021

Piano Wreckage at Ithaca College

Bethany Stotts, December 16, 2009

The Ithacan Online reported on Monday that person(s) had vandalized more than 60 pianos in college’s practice rooms over the weekend. And this wasn’t just scratches, it was violent vandalism:

More than 60 pianos were damaged Saturday night in the first floor practice rooms in the Whalen School of Music…

Sophomore Andrew Thomson, a composition and instrumental major, said he went into the first floor of the Whalen Center to retrieve some equipment and found damaged equipment in all of the practice rooms.

“Two or three [pianos] were flipped completely over,” he said. “Most were up against the doors somehow.”

Thomson said the front sound panels and music racks were pulled off and most of the baby grand pianos were damaged.

Thomson said the damage comes before finals and juries—final playing exams—which start today.

“It’s perfect timing,” Thomson said. “It’s wreaking havoc.”

Article author Gillian Smith adds:

Donald McKechnie, piano technician, said at this point most of the pianos have been restored to working order, but some had extensive damage and had to be taken out of commission....

(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: ithaca; music; piano; vandalism

1 posted on 12/16/2009 10:47:28 AM PST by bs9021
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To: bs9021

Sounds like somebody wasn’t prepared for his/her finals?


2 posted on 12/16/2009 10:48:54 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Ram "Health Care Reform" down our throats in '09, and we'll ram it up your @ss in '10.)
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To: bs9021

It was those kids from Cornell.


3 posted on 12/16/2009 10:49:41 AM PST by PGR88
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To: bs9021

Is Jerry Lee Lewis still alive?


4 posted on 12/16/2009 10:51:26 AM PST by Gunflint
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To: bs9021

prolly got tired of hearing ‘heart and soul’ 18 hours a day.


5 posted on 12/16/2009 10:55:08 AM PST by steveo (2010 never again)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Sounds like somebody wasn’t prepared for his/her finals?

Yea, they must be all wee wee’d up. The horror.


6 posted on 12/16/2009 10:56:16 AM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: bs9021

Band nerds gone WILD!!


7 posted on 12/16/2009 10:56:17 AM PST by mkboyce
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To: steveo

chopsticks


8 posted on 12/16/2009 10:58:46 AM PST by incredulous joe (Bacon makes everything better.)
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To: bs9021
Vanessa Calaban, junior music major, organized a candlelight vigil in light of the vandalism.

…“You talk to any music major about this and we all feel like there has been some horrific murder here,” Thomson said.

Typical music major over-the-top drama (speaking as one). LOL. I'm going with the unprepared piano student theory. Juries do make people crazy.

9 posted on 12/16/2009 11:03:25 AM PST by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: bs9021

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek44tW0Dqig

Obviously it was a University Police investigation that went very wrong.


10 posted on 12/16/2009 11:31:20 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: keepitreal

Vanessa Calaban, junior music major, organized a candlelight vigil in light of the vandalism.
…“You talk to any music major about this and we all feel like there has been some horrific murder here,” Thomson said.

Thereby proving that the college’s English and History departments have a lot to answer for, if this is the sort of critical thinking that is taught there.


11 posted on 12/16/2009 11:34:44 AM PST by Pecos
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To: Pecos

If the same thing had happened to the computer lab, I would bet dollars to donuts the geeks would be holding some sort of vigil

Probably with LED lights....


12 posted on 12/16/2009 11:38:37 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: Pecos

These are musicians - never known to be the sharpest knives in the drawer.


13 posted on 12/16/2009 12:12:52 PM PST by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: keepitreal
These are musicians - never known to be the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Since the average person cannot even play an instrument, much less do so well, and the reason seems to be based on certain types of mental capabilities, I would say that musicians are among the sharper knives in the drawer.

14 posted on 12/16/2009 2:30:43 PM PST by wideminded
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To: wideminded

I am one! Perhaps not the most logical folks would make more sense.


15 posted on 12/16/2009 3:35:04 PM PST by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: bs9021

This one time, at band camp...


16 posted on 12/16/2009 5:29:35 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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