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"We were thinking of a big production, a music video epic," the 16-year-old said.
The piano was left over from the set of a television series that Harrington's father had designed, and was kept for years in a garage.
Harrington had the idea of using it as a prop in a student video that he could submit as part of his application to art school. He wanted to film the piano on the sandbar.
But before he got there, there was a raucous New Year's eve party at their house, and a crowd of about 100 began chanting burn the piano, and the Harringtons obliged, dousing it with flammable liquid.
"We were peer-pressured into burning it," Harrington said.
The next day they lowered the scorched piano into a boat, and took it out to the sandbar where they burned it again.
And there it sat, a strange new object in the bay and the subject of curiosity of condo dwellers on shore until a woman took a boat out to see for herself, and took dozens of photographs.
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The piano was left over from the set of a television series that Harrington's father had designed, and was kept for years in a garage.
Harrington had the idea of using it as a prop in a student video that he could submit as part of his application to art school. He wanted to film the piano on the sandbar.
But before he got there, there was a raucous New Year's eve party at their house, and a crowd of about 100 began chanting burn the piano, and the Harringtons obliged, dousing it with flammable liquid.
"We were peer-pressured into burning it," Harrington said.
The next day they lowered the scorched piano into a boat, and took it out to the sandbar where they burned it again.
And there it sat, a strange new object in the bay and the subject of curiosity of condo dwellers on shore until a woman took a boat out to see for herself, and took dozens of photographs.
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