02GF74
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 12:40 PM |
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What is it?
"It's supposed to be a grand piano"
"Well, it doesn;t look very grand to me!"  *
here
* as I'm sure you all remember, this is taken from a Bash Street Kids comic frmo the 1975 annual.
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mackei23b
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 12:53 PM |
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No need to make a song and dance about it!
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Guinness
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 01:02 PM |
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Whoops
I love the hands on head look! Also classic how it was treated really carefully getting it off wrapped in a padded blanket, but once they'd
dropped it, they just got a tractor in with some webbing straps!
How many people have emailed the company asking them for a quote, seeing as it is so proudly displayed on the side of the truck? Any publicity is
good publicity?
Mike
P.S. I know I shouldn't gloat, but I've just had 12 sheets of 3000mm x 1200mm x 15mm toughend curved glass delivered to site today. They
had to be carried up 4 flights of stairs cause they didn't fit in the lift. And we didn't drop one! The eight week lead time for
replacing a broken sheet pales into insignificance compared to the lead time for a new piano!
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gazza285
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 01:59 PM |
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I used to move a grand about when I worked in the music biz and can only sympathise with the blokes that dropped this one. Grands are heavy and
unwieldy beasts that seem to want to fall over at the drop of a hat.
DO NOT PUT ON KNOB OR BOLLOCKS!
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02GF74
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 02:23 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gazza285
I used to move a grand about when I worked in the music biz and can only sympathise with the blokes that dropped this one.
sympathise with those idiots? Nope, they should have known better for a company that specialises in transporting big pianos.
A bit of french polish and it'll be a good as new 
[Edited on 11/4/07 by 02GF74]
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Peteff
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 03:40 PM |
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Grand?
45 grand piano more like, although it was only insured for its auction price of 26 grand which was a bargain but seems less of one now  .
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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gazza285
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 04:27 PM |
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Might need a retune at least.
DO NOT PUT ON KNOB OR BOLLOCKS!
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graememk
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 04:39 PM |
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i might email them for a laugh.
what should i ask them to move for me ?
something rubber lol tyres ? jelly ?
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ned
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 05:01 PM |
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well it's just on the six o'clock news!
beware, I've got yellow skin
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wilkingj
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 08:12 PM |
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Just in case you all wondered, its NOT a Grand Piano.
Its a Concert Grand Piano, being transported for an event.
its insured, but its a write off. Still its worth around £45k.
Its a shame when such a nice instrument gets destroyed.
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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ned
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 08:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by wilkingj
Still its worth around £45k.
Well, it was....
beware, I've got yellow skin
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caber
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| posted on 11/4/07 at 09:38 PM |
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I think it is probably recoverable. The case may be battered but the main works are on a sod off great steel frame! Also having been in the music
business and been a reluctant party in touring a concert grand in a big flight case it took the quick way down the stairs at Middlesbrough Town Hall,
that's a stone flight that takes you up one floor, and it was absolutely fine the following night but the flightcase never closed again!
Caber
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t.j.
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| posted on 12/4/07 at 07:40 PM |
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How long does this piano burn?
If long it is a good one 
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