Could You Hum A Few Bars?

Thats exactly what music lovers at the Two Moors Festival in Devon may have to do this year. The new concert grand piano they spent years raising funds to buy was delivered yesterday. Perhaps if the movers had slowed the truck down a bit before dropping it off, it would have survived the delivery….

A £45,000 concert grand piano has been wrecked after delivery men dropped it 14 feet off the back of a lorry.

Music lovers had spent two years raising the cash to buy the nine-foot-long Bosendorfer for the Two Moors Festival in Devon.

Organiser Penny Adie, aged 54, had gone to London to try out different pianos before finally selecting the magnificent Bosendorfer, known as the Rolls Royce of pianos.

Disaster struck when a firm of specialist movers arrived with the piano at their gallery and arts centre at Barkham, near South Molton.

Penny was hoping to capture a triumphal arrival on camera but instead snapped the moment when the piano caught on the side of the lorry and topples off the tail lift.

The scene was reminiscent of the hilarious PG tips advert where feckless chimps try to deliver a grand piano.

It doesn't look like anyone is laughing in the pictures, though.