Mystery piano, abandoned deep in the woods, baffles Cape Cod police

[KittyWampus]

Mystery piano, abandoned deep in the woods, baffles Cape Cod police
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, November 24th 2008, 8:48 AM


A police officer checks an abandoned piano for clues.


HARWICH, Mass. - Harwich police have a musical mystery on their hands: Who left a piano in the middle of the woods? And why?

The Baldwin piano discovered in the Bells Neck woods appears to be in perfect working condition and had a matching bench as if it had recently been played.
The piano was discovered Saturday by a woman walking along a path inside a conservation area at the woods.

Another question police would like to answer is how the piano got to such a remote location. The piano is heavy and it took more than a half dozen men to load it onto a truck to remove it.

Police said they've notified other police departments in the area to see if anyone has reported a missing piano.

[TheWraith]

1. Ohh...kay.

That's just weird.

[hlthe2b]

2. Sounds like a Northern Exposure episode!

I'm sure there is a great story to be told...

[KittyWampus]

3. ah, Chris' Piano Catapult happening, IIRC?

[hlthe2b]

4. Yeah it was Chris' catapault attempt, but he wanted to do a cow...

It was Maggie's piano.... But, good memory! (I just happened to have watched it recently)

[MorningGlow]

34. It ain't the thing you fling,

It's the fling itself! :hi:

[mdmc]

44. sometimes you need to do something bad, just to know that you are alive

[MorningGlow]

49. SIGH!

I miss that show. I put the DVD set on my Amazon wish list. Hope Mr. MG gets it for me for Christmas. I'll even watch it without the proper Chris-music--it's been so long!

[mdmc]

52. I just went through the entire series via netflix

they actually changed the music from the original tv series... lots of the background sounds are different on dvd..

[tridim]

5. I like it.

No idea why, but crazy stuff like this is just cool. :)

Are there footprints? Tire tracks?

[MrsBrady]

12. there would have to be tire tracks or something...

I had an upright piano growing up. It went with me twice, until I sold it.

it requires at least 3 or 4 strong men at minimum. They are HEAVY!!
Depending on the age and the size/quality, could even be 500 lbs, sometimes less, sometimes more.

There would have to be tire tracks and foot prints.
Especially tire tracks when the piano is on the truck.

[Froward69]

17. 8x10

Color glossy photos... the The approach, the getaway, the NW angle, the SW angle...
tire tracks, footprints...


undoubtedly a terrorist plot!!!!

[DefenseLawyer]

26. Clearly Arlo Guthrie put that piano in the woods

Call Officer Obie!

[KittyWampus]

31. Maybe little Johnny's parents got tired of listening to him play scales and butchering classics

[surrealAmerican]

43. ... with the circles, and the arrows, ...

... and a paragraph on the back of each one, explaining what each one was?

[Tesha]

47. Yes, and on the piano, ON THE PIANO ITSELF, was the full orchestration and

FIVE PART HARMONY!

Tesha

[lunatica]

6. UFOs obviously

[opihimoimoi]

7. Perhaps a Prop for a Movie, Photo shoot, DVD, etc ??? Hiddens cameras to

document the finding and reactions?? Who noes?

[merh]

8. It probably belongs to someone that loves to play the piano and

the outdoors. They decided to combine the two loves, no big deal.

A baby grand would have been extreme.

[conscious evolution]

37. At a Rainbow Gathering

A group drug a full size grand piano miles into the woods.
None of them knew how to play it.

[msongs]

9. it's a new religion - piano from heaven sent to earth as a sign - worship it now :-) nt

[lunatica]

11. Nah. That only works if it has the face of Jesus or Mary on it

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Bears

Ask Colbert about it.

Def'nitely bears.

[Octafish]

13. It's Art.

Art for art's sake.

[populistdriven]

39. yep, art

[Karenina]

40. We shared a birthday and corresponded.

LOVE that shot! I miss my Unka Artie... :cry:

[htuttle]

14. Sometimes people can't afford to feed their pianos anymore, so they let them loose in the wild

Unfortunately, pianos aren't used to fending for themselves outdoors, so they rarely survive for long.

It's tragic, really.

[KittyWampus]

15. you really deserve a DUZY for that.

[tabasco]

27. What's really shameful is the poaching

for the ivory.

[charlie]

16. If a piano falls in the woods... n/t

[leftofthedial]

18. it was that yo yo from Windham Hill

practicing

[TahitiNut]

23. George Winston? Could be ... he eschews amplification and likes natural acoustics.

I, for one, had ALL of the early Windham Hill albums. ALL of them. I adored the music.

[leftofthedial]

24. Winter Into Spring

is a classic.

[TahitiNut]

30. Absolutely. Fabulous album ... damned near wore it out.

Best of that series, imho. Although I regard 'December' as the best of the Christmas music published in 50 years.

[leftofthedial]

32. I did wear it out. Wore out the vinyl.

Had a cassette that just got stolen with my car a few weeks ago.

Lost the CD in my divorce and bought another one.

[TahitiNut]

35. They published the most noise-free vinyl I ever found.

Extraordinary recordings and production quality. I had a Dual single-play turntable - top of the line and top of the line Shure cartridge - and was obsessive about cleaning and care of my LPs. Those early Windham Hill albums were a real joy ... the fidelity and range were phenomenal.

[Berry Cool]

19. A feral piano. I wonder if it will revert to its wild self

and start playing off-key.

I wouldn't try to shoot and eat one, though.

I hear organ meats are much better.

[KittyWampus]

22. How do you field dress a piano?

[htuttle]

28. I've had to do that

Seriously. If you've ever been stuck with a used piano during a move to a smaller place, you'll find out how hard it is to get rid of one of those things!

I ended up disassembling ours in a somewhat inelegant fashion. I put pieces of it on the curb for the garbageman over the course of a few weeks. I left the harp for last, and somebody ended up taking it home.

[DefenseLawyer]

20. It's from the Acme Piano Company

[Warpy]

21. I suggest they contact the Boston and Cambridge cops

because one thing eastern Mass. has in abundance is fraternities.

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. it would be so cool

to listen to someone playing beautiful music in the woods!

[KittyWampus]

29. A bagpipe player occasionally drones away in the dunes at the beach down the street.

It's kind of surreal if you go down and just happen to hear the bagpipe music coming out over the dunes from some out-of-sight location.

[pitohui]

33. it would be cooler still not to hear it

what the hell is wrong with the human race that we have to drown out every bit of quiet?

i would rather hear a bird, even if it's salty old dog of a swearing crow, any day of the week, than somebody playing the piano in the woods

and don't get me started on the bagpipes!

[Tesha]

48. A bagpipe is best listened to across the waters.

The width of the Atlantic Ocean is usually considered sufficient.

;)

Tesha

[Atman]

54. LOL! That's how we hear 'em...across the lake.

We live on a lake in Connecticut. Directly across from us, about a mile or so away, is some dude who plays the bagpipes. It's actually very cool to sit on the dock on summer evening and hear the sound of the bagpipes drift across the water.

But I do agree with you...across the water, even a mile away, is close enough for me.

.

[datasuspect]

36. cue ad campaign in 3, 2, 1 . . .

[gkhouston]

38. Looks like they've discovered one of the practice rooms at the Walden Pond Conservatory. n/t

[MadHound]

41. Have they had a Rainbow Family gathering in the area lately?

Those folks like to take pianos out to the woods and play them:shrug:

I really find it hard to believe that it took six men to load that puppy, that's a rather small spinet piano, my friend and I loaded his family's spinet when he moved, just the two of us.

[KittyWampus]

50. too many donuts, not enough exercise.

[Ezlivin]

42. First the aliens came for our cattle and we did nothing...

And now they've learned that you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.

[Shiver]

45. Ah hell, they found it...

I'm screwed if they open the lid. And if they find the trombones, I'm a dead man...

:hide:

[WI_DEM]

46. Aliens have tired of crop circles and now would rather play ragtime?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

51. lol! It's haunted and the owners had to get rid of it but didn't want to destroy it.

The forest was an obvious choice. They figured the music it played would be soothing to the wildlife.
:hide:

[Bucky]

53. Doesn't Encyclopedia Brown live in that region? I'll bet he can put it all together.

And whenever Encyclopedia Brown is on the case, you just know Butch Meany is gonna be framed for it!