'It's kaputt.' Movers accidentally drop virtuoso's one-of-a-kind $194,000 piano

CNN ^ | 02/11/2020 | Emma Reynolds

[Red Badger]

No, Just:

“The movers of course were mortified. In 35 years of doing their job, this had never happened before. At least nobody was hurt.”

[Da Coyote]

Beat me to it.

“That was a priceless Steinway.”
Clouseau: “Not any more.”

[rightwingcrazy]

That really is a grand piano.

[al_c]

I would think that something that rare and valuable would be worth repairing ... if the damage isn’t catastrophic.

[al_c]

Italian engineer and pianist Paolo Fazioli, the owner of Fazioli Pianos, declared the handmade instrument "unsalvageable," Hewitt wrote.

Oh ... never mind.

[Responsibility2nd]

This article says German movers did it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7992753/Canadian-virtuosos-194-000-one-kind-grand-piano-destroyed-German-movers-drop-it.html

Of course, their names could be Mohammed, Achmed and Fayed.

[GreenHornet]

Okay, let’s be honest - how many of the rest of us automatically thought of the Stooges when we saw that headline?

[Sans-Culotte]

Heaviest dang thing I ever saw!

Pianos seem like the heaviest things in the world. My wife and I have an upright piano. I had to move it when we recarpeted the living room a few years ago. It has rollers, but is difficult to roll on carpet. Also, the front legs of the piano are sort of spindly. So, we had to slightly lift the front so the legs would not take too much weight and break off.

Pianos are so heavy they should never be moved IMO.

[grey_whiskers]

Years ago I watched movers talk a huge grand piano...like the one pictured...out of a 5th story window or door with a crane. Didn't stick around long enough to see if they dropped it but it was an interesting sight.

As long as there were no Warner Brothers cartoons lurking about on the sidewalk below, it should have been perfectly safe...p> ("Safe. I say, That's a joke, son.")

[Loud Mime]

I cannot bring myself to find any humor in this crash.

[Jane Long]

Thanks.

I wonder if this was even their forte.

(Ducking)

[vespa300]

Another fine mess you got me in to....

[Red Badger]

Pianissimo......................

[chrisser]

"I wonder if this was even their forte."

Awesome comment!

[MayflowerMadam]

Oy! My Steinway is being delivered in about 10 days. Now I’m antsy.

[Jane Long]

😉

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Oooo! Lucky gal! Enjoy!

[Ancesthntr]

Not to poke fun at this woman’s loss (I feel badly for her - that piano cannot be replaced), but this reminds me of an episode of the Laurel and Hardy show when Ollie and Stan were moving a piano up a huge flight of stairs to a mansion. Let’s just say that the piano was a bit worse for wear after they got through with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgqXVeIPSzA This is about 5 minutes, and there’s a lot of not-so-subtle un-PC stuff in it (IOW, it is funny). Note that this is colorized, and if you let it play to its conclusion there is the original 27-minute B&W version.

[Loud Mime]

Oy! My Steinway is being delivered in about 10 days. Now I’m antsy.

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Send the delivery people this article.

[bikerman]

And they want $15 an hour.