Mystery Piano appears in Florida

[Liberal_in_LA]

Were they trying to tuna fish? 650lbs grand piano mysteriously appears on Florida sandbar

By Daily Mail Reporter

It certainly strikes a discordant note.
A 650lbs grand piano has mysteriously appeared on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay - and no one appears to be coming Bach for it.
The piano was placed at the highest point along the sandbar, about 200 yards from shore, so that it doesn't disappear underwater during high tide.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350590/Were-trying-tuna-fish-650lbs-grand-piano-mysteriously-appears-Florida-sandbar.html#ixzz1C6KS5hF5

Picture of someone playing the piano here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/26piano.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

A Mystery in Black and White on Biscayne Bay

Maggie Steber for The New York Times
Boaters dropped by the sandbar in Biscayne Bay on Tuesday to try out the mystery piano.

By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: January 25, 2011

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — From the shore, it looks like an oddly shaped buoy. But as residents here have discovered on closer inspection, it is in fact a grand piano perched upright on a narrow sand bar in Biscayne Bay — a sight that has inspired wordsmiths to compete to name South Florida’s newest curiosity (“piano bar” seems to have won).

The more relevant question, of course, is who might have left the 650-pound piano atop the highest point of the sand bar, about 200 yards from shore, and why.

“Maybe it was used for a models’ shoot,” theorized Mark Alan Leszczynski, president of Piano Showcase in Fort Lauderdale. “Or maybe this was something some bitter divorced person would do — take your ex-husband’s prized piano and dump it on a sand bar.”

The piano in the bay has quickly established itself as another confounding South Florida mystery, like the bicycles, all painted the same shade of bright blue, that were turning up, without explanation, all over Fort Lauderdale.

[uppityperson]

1. k&r, better than the feet in tennis shoes washing up on the beaches up here

[lame54]

2. Have you looked inside?

[uppityperson]

4. Several have washed up in BC and WA and yes, they do have feet in them

a couple ended up matching, but there are about 6 random ones. First they all were from 1 side, making me think of a plane crash, but both rights and lefts have turned up. Sneakers can float a long ways, the ocean is cold=ewwww

[lame54]

9. I meant look inside the piano

[Lint Head]

3. I immediately thought it was in the Keys.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. good one

[spanone]

5. bachelor party?

[Canuckistanian]

7. Almost all of Florida is a mystery to me

Almost NOTHING that happens there surprises me.

[mike_c]

8. oddly enough, the Sand Bar in Miami is on GRAND Avenue....

Sounds like a delivery mix-up. :rofl:

[LeftinOH]

10. Maybe a photo shoot or music video that was abandoned. n/t

[blogslut]

11. Urban Guerillas

Fear them.

[Angry Dragon]

12. Perhaps Trident donated it after he got a better one

[Turborama]

13. CNN have a video of it

Here: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/01/26/mystery.piano/index.html?hpt=C2

[Turborama]

14. Teen explains origins of mystery piano

Details: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/mystery.piano/index.html

[petronius]

15. That Fish & Wildlife spokesman seems pretty unimpressed

Funny that there were dueling claims of responsibility - the kid who did it only 'fessed up after someone else tried to steal his glory (and while it's funny, it's not that spectacular a prank)... :rofl:

[MilesColtrane]

16. "I liked the idea of an anonymous piano out there, no explanation to it,"

"That's why I contacted a TV news station to claim credit for it."

:eyes:

Art Fail

[msanthrope]

17. No one's come Bach for it? Maybe the water's too Chopin? n/t