A British couple's dream of unveiling a valuable concert grand piano at their annual music festival came crashing down before them Tuesday. John and Penny Adie, organizers of the Two Moors Festival, watched in horror as movers dropped the Bosendorfer piano they'd spent two years raising the funds to buy.
A specialist crew from moving company G&R was unloading the Austrian-made instrument — which is valued at £45,000 (close to $102,000 Cdn) — when it toppled over. At a length of nearly three metres, the instrument is larger and longer than most concert grand pianos. Its tail end had caught on the truck and it fell about 2.5 metres down an embankment before crash landing, upside-down, on a bank of stone steps.
Penny Adie had been photographing every step, hoping to record the moment for posterity.
You could say the same about a lot of things. Like who buys a 1.5 million dollar Ferrari? Its equally ridiculous to a lot of people. (Well, me mostly. )
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"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
The worst part of it was that they had saved and raised money for over 2 years just to buy that specific piano! There was a great photo in the paper on tuesday with one of the moving guys with his hands on his head and a look of 'oh sh it on me'.
U.K. movers hit bad note as $100,000 piano smashed
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