Mystery of piano in Miami's Biscayne Bay solved
AFP
MIAMI- The mystery of the black baby grand piano that appeared upright on a tiny sand bar in Miami's Biscayne Bay, capturing world attention, appears to have been solved.
Teenager Nicholas Harrington told the Miami Herald that he carried out the prank with his father's help in what began as a plan to make a video to get into art school in Manhattan.
"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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