[Dixielandjazz] Crappy pianos - the solution

[David Richoux]

Since burning pianos is now the "hot topic:"

Reminds me just a bit of what happened at Burning Man 1996 - a guy  
who had a day job of moving pianos built a multi- story structure of  
old pianos (80+ pianos hulks, as I recall) and people would come up  
with sticks to bang on them. The thing was so big there was a  
"nightclub" inside - well, at least a bar... at the end of the event  
the whole thing was lit on fire - the sounds of those burning pianos  
was  spectacular!

there is an article about this at:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/29298.html   and some pictures at:
http://www.burningman.com/art_of_burningman/piano_bell_gallery.html

I could not find any on-line video of that event, but it was quite  
something to experience!

Dave Richoux

On Feb 25, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Bill Gunter wrote:

> Listmates,
>
> Lots of discussion about “crappy pianos” often found at gigs away  
> from home, Pat Ladd talks about one on a British aircraft carrier:
>
> “ . . . the old upright was dispatched in style by the steam  
> catapult off the flight deck.”
>