On Wed, 21 Feb 1996 TLGreene@aol.com wrote: > Since they're built like tanks anyway, the Defence Dept toyed with the idea > of putting treads and a gun turret on these old uprights that abound in the > sunday school rooms throughout the country. The idea was that if the guns > didn't get the enemy then the troops could at least drive them crazy by > playing yet another round of "Heart and Soul". It would be all the more > effective since the piano would always be out of tune, for being on treads it > would be on the move and everyone knows that everytime you move a piano it > goes out of tune right? Apparently the project never got past congress. > They felt that it was too inhumane a weapon. > > Terry Greene RPT It figures. Finally someone comes up with a constructive use for old Kranich & Bach pianos and then Congress nixes the idea. They might have gone for it if someone had mentioned the catapult option, too! :) Les Smith lessmith@buffnet.net
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