Today's puzzle - how the heck did this happen?

[Mik]

My SIL shared this with the following caption from the OP:

"This is what’s left of the Steinway 9 foot grand piano after people NOT QUALIFIED to run things in the high school auditorium decided they did know. $40-50,000 to repair probably. A new one is $120-150,000. We will see. "

I've moved a whole lot of grands but never seen one get flipped over with all three legs on. I guess you could rig it up wrong with a crane but it would still be hard to do.

[Mik]

Aha! From the OP - "They lowered the pit floor not realizing one part of the piano was on it."

[Klaus]

I'd guess that it's either just cosmetic damage or it's a complete wreck.

[Copper]

This happens to the coyote all the time.

But the piano is usually destroyed.

It looks like the Steinway held up well.

[taiwan_girl]

Ouch!!!

[LuFins Dad]

You would not want to rebuild that. The piano was likely originally selected from a group of D's based on unique characteristics. You can get the finest rebuilder in the world (a small company in Philadelphia comes to mind) and know that the rebuild will be wonderful, but it won't be the same piano, and it likely won't have the characteristics that made them select the piano for the stage. They will need to replace.

As long as they are replacing, may I suggest they consider a Bösendorfer 280VC... I know where they can get a heck of a deal! And a nice letter to their insurance company as well...

[jodi]

Omg. That’s awful. Sometimes you have no choice on who moves your piano (meaning there are no qualified people to hire). Our last move had our piano almost flipped into the rock garden off the front steps on the way into the house. We’ve moved it so many times I’m at the point where I fully expected it to come off the moving van in a million pieces.