BS: The highest note in Britain?

Subject: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:04 AM

It might belong up there ^.

Piano found at the top of Ben Nevis!

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:22 AM

Brilliant! The great British eccentric strikes again:-)

Reminds me that when I was on top of the Ben I rattled out a tune on the old gob iron and my mate, Mike handed me a 10p peice.

"What's that for?" I asked.

"Well, now you can say you were once the highest paid mouth organ player in Scotland."

...and I still do say it!

Cheers

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: autolycus
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:19 AM

Someone self-evidently starting a fad for extreme pianism.




    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:32 AM

Someone claims it's theirs.

However, as he says he took an organ up, and the photo clearly shows a piano, I think there must be more instruments up there waiting to be discovered.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:59 AM

He also claims to have carried several other heavy objects up there, including a plough (?).

I'm not sure whether that's littering or fly tipping, when it comes to charging him.

Still, whatever floats his boat......or in this case, probably sinks it.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Ruler
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:07 AM

£50 ?

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:24 AM

First Organ transplant maybe?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:57 AM

This isn't anything to do with Skipy's new hobby is it?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:53 PM

Since when do organs have strings???
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Peace
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:03 PM

C# above high C?

Just guessing at that.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:28 PM

If they recover the piano and drop it down a pit shaft will they get Abminor?

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: bobad
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:35 PM

Big deal, I've hauled my organ up many peaks.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: skipy
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:35 PM

O/k, This is rare!
I am being serious here!
Back in the late 70s when I was a member of METHS - Malta Expedition Training Hillwalking Society, (RAF) we hosted a talk from a gentleman who was involved in moving a grand piano in 1942 (ish) from France to Spain, by hand, across the Pyrannes to stop the Germans taking it away as spoils of war. Wrapped in tarps, covered in ropes, they hauled it all the way!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:43 PM

The Hills are alive with the sound of music!
Been up the Ben but never seen an instrument there. Also seen one down an old mineshaft...apparently it never worked till they threw it down the mine where it made its only sound...'A flat miner' I believe.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 May 06 - 12:08 AM

The Goons busked a piano across the English Channel once...

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 19 May 06 - 07:34 AM

A friend of mine on the summit of Ben Nevis one New Year's Day saw a naked guy standing on the trig point playing a trumpet. He told him he'd done it the previous two New Year's Days on the summits of Snowdon and Scafell Pike. It was apparently a bet for half a bottle of Pernod.
I've seen the photograph - superb. Don't know what the tune was, though. If he pointed the trumpet upwards, that would have been the highest note in Britain.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 May 06 - 08:15 AM

Bloody careless these mountain climbers.
They'd forget their own heads if they weren't screwed on.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: autolycus
Date: 19 May 06 - 03:18 PM

Solution (?) provided on BBC Radio 4 this p.m.

   The piano was taken up by 24 removal men from Dundee, working in relays of 4 at front, 4 at back. They kept the keyboard as a souvenir (?). Happened in 1986.

   I missed the "Why?" bit.


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: The highest note in Britain?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 19 May 06 - 07:29 PM

In that case somebody ought to take the remains to Dundee and drop them on the street outside the Mayor's office. Do they have Mayors in Scotland?
Ray