BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool

Subject: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:33 AM

Having been busy daily for the last 4 weeks at landscaping, illuminating and renovating a swimming pool the final touch was to submerge a giant 25 ft solar heat collecting grand piano at the shallow end of the pool.

pictures to follow regarding this cost saving endeavor.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Alba
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:42 AM

Donuel...this I must see......LOL
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:05 AM

Sounds like an "oops" or "oh, shit!" kind of modification to the swimming pool, if you ask me. It's a helluva way to wash them. Wringing out all of those little bits of felt is so darned tedious!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:09 AM

You'll play A Little Water Music for us too, I hope...

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:30 AM

Wasn't the 'Piano Man' found soaking wet- a coincidence?

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: GUEST,Mr Happy
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:32 AM

Sorry, Guest above was me

http://207.103.108.99/thread.cfm?threadid=81229&messages=40#1485878

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Mooh
Date: 19 May 05 - 01:48 PM

Damn, daylia beat me to the obvious wisecrack!

Pianos go weird places. I used to play regularly in a provincial park which had an illkept piano in an unheated and not very airtight barn. Played like shit. I was once sued over a child who lost a toe to a falling piano, and I wasn't even present or responsible for either child or piano. I won.

But in a pool? Cool! I suppose there're a couple down with the Titanic, not played lately.

I'll be careful next week when I get a new (used) upright delivered.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 May 05 - 02:06 PM

Mooh told us:

I was once sued over a child who lost a toe to a falling piano, and I wasn't even present or responsible for either child or piano. I won.

Now you've got me fascinated! What was the theory advanced as to why you should be held liable?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 19 May 05 - 02:15 PM

I was once sued after accidentally dropping a piano down a colliery shaft. He was Ab minor.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 May 05 - 05:30 PM

Funny, I got done for rolling a Steinway grand through the officers mess.... Made Ab Major.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 May 05 - 06:18 PM

Think I need to make a few notes here?

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 May 05 - 06:31 PM

Just don't get keyed up.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 May 05 - 07:21 PM

The old Military joke was for the Sargent to call for volunteers who could play the piano, then send them off to move it...

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: robomatic
Date: 19 May 05 - 07:48 PM

Neddie Seagoon sailed one from The Louvre all the way to Rockhall.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:19 PM

Gonna be a sonuvabitch to make the bank shots with the piano in the piano legs in the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:20 PM

LOL. Can't believe I just posted that.

"Gonna be a sonuvabitch to make the bank shots with the piano legs in the way."

There, what's better.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:21 PM

Skrewit.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 05 - 08:33 PM

brucie,

If you screw a piano, don't you end up with a litter of accordions?

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: JennyO
Date: 19 May 05 - 09:38 PM

"But that's a priceless Steinway!"

"Not any mooeere" (Inspector Clouseau)

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 05 - 09:45 PM

LOL, bb. Good one.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 May 05 - 09:54 PM

My ex-father-in-law was bringing a new (used) upright home in the back of an open pickup truck. He took a corner too fast and the piano tipped out, falling onto a parked car. Auto insurance covered the damage to the other vehicle, but the piano was a total loss and he got a hefty traffic ticket for not having the load adequately secured.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 05 - 09:55 PM

And on top of THAT, he missed the pool.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: robomatic
Date: 19 May 05 - 10:17 PM

Yeah, I was asked to help load an upright piano into the back of a small moving van. "Where are the straps?' I asked, "Oh, we're going to go very slow" the assured response of my friend's boyfriend. I followed close behind on my motorcycle, so as he rounded a corner the magic of centrifugality did its work and I heard the soundboard ring out its last tonal chorus as it hit the deck. Wordlessly the boyfriend sprang the door, and we gazed numbly....

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Mooh
Date: 19 May 05 - 11:49 PM

To answer Uncle DaveO's question (tune out if you don't give a shit about this thread drift)...Yeah, the idea was that since I was responsible as chief custodian for maintaining the school where said accident occurred, I would also be responsible for its contents.

I beat the suit with several little bits of logic, namely 1) the piano was teaching equipment not secured to the building and I wasn't actually responsible for teaching equipment unless specifically directed otherwise, 2) pianos were never mentioned in any policy, procedure, collective agreement, health and safety document or elsewhere verbally as my problem, 3) said piano had never been inventoried and may not actually have belonged to the employer, it did but at least they couldn't prove it, 4) my threatened countersuit and individual and policy grievances had the weight and will of the largest labour union in North America, 5) I could prove (after the fact) that the piano was improperly manufactured for regular moving and that the school board was responsible for safety 6) the buffoon who was really responsible had a group of students move the thing, and wasn't present when they tipped it over on one of their own feet, 7) I wasn't there, 8) I wasn't in charge of kids, 9) I hadn't worked there long enough to know squat, theoretically, 10) the other party tried to bully and bribe me into making a false statement, 11) I don't accept bullying well and the pricks picked the wrong guy to screw over...I pushed back.

I really did feel sorry for the suffering the kid endured, and supported any effort to fix the problems which led to the decapitation, but I wasn't responsible. In fact, I would have made a pretty good witness for the other side had they had any brains.

I bet that in the 15 years since, nothing much has changed, other than I got a better job.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: TIA
Date: 20 May 05 - 12:27 AM

Its mostly wood innit? Why don't it float?

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 20 May 05 - 12:38 AM

dot, dot, dot, dash

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: TIA
Date: 20 May 05 - 12:59 AM

Can't acces the clicky (no permisssion!)

dot dot dot    dot dot dot dot    dot dot    dash!

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 20 May 05 - 01:04 AM

http://image03.webshots.com/3/6/85/28/868528_ph.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: TIA
Date: 20 May 05 - 01:33 AM

same :(

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Peace
Date: 20 May 05 - 01:38 AM

OK, then.

Google

http://image03.webshots.com/3/6/85/28/868528_ph.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 May 05 - 06:57 AM

"If you screw a piano, don't you end up with a litter of accordions?"

Nope - Hammered Dulcimers!


Robin
An Accordion & Hammered Dulcimer Player!


BTW, the Goons had to vamp the piano across the Channel as they couldn't read sheet music!

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: robomatic
Date: 20 May 05 - 07:07 AM

Fool:

"The very piano Napoleon played at Waterloo."
"No wonder we lost."

Bless yer 'eart! LOL. But the term they used was "you'll have to bus or bust". I'm not familiar with the word in that usage, and I think I've heard it more than once. Is that the same as vamp, which I understand as "fake it"? Is it an 'English' term or a 'musical' term?

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 May 05 - 07:19 AM

robomatic

I heard them use the word 'busk' - or bust.

Please let's not reopen the busking threads again....

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 May 05 - 10:23 AM

Tia, a piano isn't "mostly wood". The case is wood, but, other than a lot of space, most of what's inside is metal. Certainly a very great deal of the weight of a piano is in the frame, which is cast metal--I don't know, iron, steel, or bronze.

And the wood involved is pretty dense, and might not float just in itself.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Piano at bottom of swimming pool
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 05 - 11:21 AM

Drat, it is really raining hard and the cover is on so I can't take a picture. Having mentally blocked out various angles for pictures I almost believed that I had taken some already and had to double check.

From 75 feet of ribbed black vinyl runners I joined segments and cut them to shape. While the pool was filling I had little time to make a stencil of a giant keyboard and spray paint the 8 octaves. From the stairs the piano looks in proportion but from the side it is exteremely elongated like a stretch limo.

Any shape will do such as dolphin, killer whales or a passenger liner. Most solar pool heaters are external and involve a pump and hoses. I just cut out the middle man and have the sun heat the black mats underwater. The sost savings is about 80% compared to buying an external solar collector. The space savings is 100%.

Another invention I did decades ago was to install underwater speakers in a waterbed. It was vibraciously delicious. Currently I put speakers inside the hot tub cabinate. If you submerge your ears the sound is 4 times louder under underwater - especially the bass - while the cabinate itself acts like giant subwoofer in the immediate vicinity of the hot tub.
The treble is compensated with a set of four large flower pots on legs that have speakers that point straight down. The sound can be angled with flat rocks beneath the pots. The result is a full dynamic sound that while powerful does not disturb the neighbors since the sound dissipates upwards so that 50 feet away the sound
is nearly inaudible.