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Started by Ed, May 19, 2006, 05:57:55 AM

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Piano found on Ben Nevis


Volunteers clearing litter at the top of Ben Nevis have found a piano.

They are now trying to find out who carried the heavy instrument up Britain's highest peak.

The only clue is a biscuit wrapper found under the piano. It had a best before date of December 1986.

Fifteen volunteers from conservation charity the John Muir Trust spotted it as they cleared rubbish from the summit.

The cast iron frame and strings were still intact but the keyboard was missing reports The Sun.

Volunteer organiser Sandy Maxwell, of Glasgow, said: "We have a constant battle against stuff left on the slopes but this elevates being a litter lout sky-high."

The piano was broken up and carried down the mountain in bits by 30 volunteers.

Source - http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1847114.html?menu=
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SharonBell

I'm voting for the "It fell out of a plane" theory!  :bleh:
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Walker

I vote that Supertramp put it there for an album cover shoot, then abandoned it when the drugs wore off and they realized how friggin' cold it was up there.
"Lord, here comes the flood, we will say goodbye to flesh and blood. If, again, the seas are silent in any still alive, it'll be those who gave their island to survive. Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry."
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Ed

I like the way there's so much concern about who left a piano on the slopes, like somebody has been very naughty, but nobody's asking if the pianist is OK :grin:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

SharonBell

Perhaps they SHOT the piano player!   :grin:
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Walker

Quote from: blunt on May 19, 2006, 02:46:01 PM
nobody's asking if the pianist is OK :grin:

I just checked and my pianist is fine.
There's just way too much potential for humour with this one.
"Lord, here comes the flood, we will say goodbye to flesh and blood. If, again, the seas are silent in any still alive, it'll be those who gave their island to survive. Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry."
Peter Gabriel.

Geoff_N

On top of Ben Nevis is the ruins of a building, which was the home of a weather observer in the early part of the 20th century. Initially, the observer used to hike up to the top of the mountain EVERY day to take observations, but the university agreed to build him a residential shelter. Volunteer students had a rota to go up several times a week with fresh food. The lowest humidity readings outside tropical deserts were recorded one day when it is believed the stratosphere came low enough (usually 12 miles up) so that the summit was above the normal weather layer of the troposphere. (I'm full of useless info). The need to man the climate station disappeared once automatic recording insturments found their way up there, and the weather along with vandal ramblers ruined the building.

I found a piano last week on the banks of the River Dee near my home. That part of the bank is only accessible by foot - there are tight tall kissgates to prevent motorbikes getting to the bank. But it is at least 3 miles from the nearest vehicle access. So either someone sailed it there - or a passing seagull dropped it. Unlike the Ben Nevis piano, this one has its keys and I was able to play a Chopin prelude. (I only know 2 off by heart) Really bizarre but there you go.

Geoff

SharonBell

Good God! It's becoming clear to me now! This isn't litter. It's an epidemic! What next? Harpsichords? Organs? I tell you we have to find a vaccine for this or the world will soon be covered in musical instruments. Time to bring in the CDC...or Robin Cook!  :o :o
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Ed

Amazing, isn't it? :scratch:  Makes you wonder if they're the fore-runners of an alien invasion - probes of some sort, designed to check out the planet and be inconspicuous.  Now those tree-huggers have unthinkingly beaten the crap out of one of their landers and carried it away in twenty pieces, the aliens think we're a hostile species and have decided to incinerate the entire planet :o
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]