Horror video: A concert grand topples over
NewsThis is security camera footage from the he Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland, where a tagehand apparently attempted to shift a piano single-handed.
Watch in horror. The disaster occurs at 0:24.
An academy staff member manipulates a box on the side of the stage, releasing a mechanism that raises the piano. The stagehand runs frantically around the instrument as the lift gets higher and higher. The man drops to his knees, walks around the instrument then clutches his head in despair.
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Straszny!
It’s just a piano.
Not sure why you’re getting all the thumbs down. It is just a piano – an expensive one, but a piano nonetheless – and any damage that relatively minor fall may have caused can be repaired.
“It’s just a piano” What is the point of your useless comment. No, it’s an extremely expensive concert grand piano. If your car negligently collided into a Rolls Royce do you reply, “It’s just a car” ???
Wrong title of this article. It should have been “Slippedpiano” 😉
Lucy! I think you got some ‘splainin’ to do!
He could have been killed.
Ouch. But actually, it doesn’t look too terminal.
The music society of which I was then chairman had a very similar occurrence with the 9 foot Steinway piano belonging to NW Arts . The piano was awaiting collection after a concert, and a theatre group using the venue released the brakes, ( despite having been expressly warned not to touch the piano ) unaware that the stage had a crown on it. The piano took off and crashed about 5 feet on to the floor of the auditorium . Fortunately no one was hurt but the piano was destroyed . I don’t know in the end whose insurers paid up, but it was a major claim
Oh well, it does have an iron frame – and looks still to be in one piece, at least…
That man should have stopped that platform from ascending any further, I daresay.
Altha T-H ….It doesn’t look to be in one piece to me ; not long after the first crash to the ground, one sees the keyboard area folding up , and this will have smashed the action to pieces . It looks a write-off to me
Inexplicable.
Reversing the lift as soon as the trouble was noted would have solved the problem.
And what is that lift for? What ever needs to be raised above the stage in such a manner?
And why isn’t the lift buttons portable?
How would Mr. Bean have covered this up ?
Surely he could’ve just…run back and turned the mechanism off?
You just can’t get good help these days!
Polnische Wirtschaft, another out to lunch employee.
One suspects the reason the lift was not put in reverse immediately is the same reason the piano was incorrectly placed from the start.
Perhaps someone should consider ‘an alternative career’.
Is the security footage in real time or in fast motion? If the former, the lift seems to be rising very fast (I thought stage lifts were supposed to be extremely slow, precisely so as to reduce the risk of serious accidents). But either way, the stagehand got it badly wrong… unless the lift did not have a functioning emergency stop button?