An extremely rare grand piano was smashed when movers dropped it while taking it out of a recording studio. Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt, one of the world’s leading classical pianists, said in a Facebook post that she had just finished recording Beethoven’s piano variations in Berlin when the movers came into the studio control room to tell her they had dropped her handmade Fazioli piano, worth $194,000. It was the only one in the world with four pedals, she wrote. “I adored this piano. It was my best friend, best companion. I loved how it felt when I was recording – giving me the possibility to do anything I wanted,” she said. The iron frame was broken, as was much of the structure, lid and case. Paolo Fazioli, the maker of Fazioli Pianos, said the handmade instrument was “unsalvageable.”
* Of course he said that. He made the piano, and now he wants her to order another one.
* One-of-a-kind piano? Now it’s a none-of-a-kind piano.
* Not much a piano if it breaks that easily.
* It’s like when those United Airlines cargo people smashed that guy’s guitar – times a million.
* “Hey, lady, y’know how you like your piano tuned a little sharp? Well, now it’s flat.”
* The weird thing? When they dropped it, it landed on Charlie Sheen.
* What was the fourth pedal for? Jimi Hendrix fuzz tone?
* Time to take up the key-tar.
CLIP: Piano smash.