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Gaaaaaargh! What a horror story!


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See, I don't see that as any different to a kid knocking the headstock of an old gibson. I mean, the value is different, but not the value to them, they both love it the same, but in her case the person who made it is still alive so it is just a question of buying another one. And the kid probably wouldn't have insurance.

I am sure she can persuade him to fit a couple of other pedals, shes only got two feet anyway :D

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Knocking the headstock off a gibson isn't the end of the world - chap I know had his invisibly repaired for £65, and its almost expected for an old one to have a repair in its history.

If fitting four pedals is such a pain in the ar$e for the manufacturer, he should probably try fitting them using his hands instead.

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44 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

A bit harsh I think. Yes, she can play other piano's, but it won't be the same as the one she lost.

I do feel for her. There's a couple of basses I have, one Jazz in particular, that just doesn't feel like any other I've played. I hope they take the muppets that broke it to the cleaners.

I know it's heavy, but so do they. I bet she's not quite as happy with them now as the article states.

I know what you're saying, and I feel sympathy for her too, but this bit of the article annoys me:

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Terence Lewis, co-owner of London’s Jaques Samuel Pianos, who has supplied other Faziolis to Hewitt and spoke to her about the accident said the destruction of the piano was “like losing a limb”.

No, it really wasn't. 😬

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2 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

I know what you're saying, and I feel for her too, but this bit of the article annoys me:

No, it really wasn't. 😬

If your 'limb' weighed half a tonne, and was made of wood, iron and bits of wire, then that is exactly what it would be like! :P

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I'm a little confused here ..are you all having a go at a musician that has suffered the loss of her ,much loved, nay treasured, unique instrument? Just because it was likened to the loss of a limb? She didn't even sat that !

Do you really think that that is what she thinks?

It's a figure of speech , used by many. She has had the piano for decades, takes it every where and it is the only one of it's make that has four pedals apparently.

Instead of getting upset about a figure of speech can we not all see the tragic loss of a treasured instrument here?

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3 minutes ago, Raymondo said:

I'm a little confused here ..are you all having a go at a musician that has suffered the loss of her ,much loved, nay treasured, unique instrument? Just because it was likened to the loss of a limb? She didn't even sat that !

Noone is 'having a go' - just having a little humour. Yes we all get it is bad for her, 

3 minutes ago, Raymondo said:

It's a figure of speech , used by many. She has had the piano for decades, takes it every where and it is the only one of it's make that has four pedals apparently.

Yeh, we got that. It has all the pedals. It was very pedally, the most pedaled one apparently. Great pedals.

3 minutes ago, Raymondo said:

Instead of getting upset about a figure of speech can we not all see the tragic loss of a treasured instrument here?

Not seeing too many people upset here

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Ok  ^^^^^ maybe the humour passed me by this time ...I have been in the pub all day 😉

I just thought that it was a really sad story...and I felt really bad for the poor "movers"

imagine how bad they must feel? ..It was  a piece of history.

 

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33 minutes ago, Raymondo said:

I just thought that it was a really sad story...and I felt really bad for the poor "movers"

I must admit I did feel bad for the movers - like they had one job to do and they were specialists at it. Some guy has to go back into work and explain to his boss that he broke a rare 150k piano. Wouldn't like to be having that conversation.

 

 

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