In a message dated 2/26/00 1:07:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, jfa19@IDT.NET writes: << Built for the TV show "Northern Exposure" and seen worldwide in two different episodes. In one episode we flung a 450 pound upright piano 100 yards. In the other episode we flung coffins into the middle of a lake. To get all the camera angles and shots for the piano episode, we flung 9 full size upright pianos. All nine pianos consistently landed in the same spot. We put a crash camera in the impact crater of one piano to get a shot of the piano coming straight down from about 250 feet in the air. Joseph Alkana RPT >> Kewl. It's also kewl that nobody has yet said "PSO" in this thread. I like the idea of the Catapult at the Convention a lot. Birdcages, square grands, "Grand" spinets, aluminum plate Winter spinets, Ex player uprights, any player with the mechanism still in but which plays horribly, just about any cheap European piano, especially Irish, just about any Aeolian piano from the era when they were gasping their last substandard materials and workmanship breaths, any piano with a bad brass flange rail or butt plates with all the center pins coming out sideways. Every Horugel ever made. Every Tokai ever made. We have enough to get started. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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