Today's a happy ending to (above):After the last one fell off the approve of a lorry with a come down heard around the world of classical music a very grand piano heading for a remote corner of Devon will be handled as delicately as a newborn babe. An £85,000 hand-built Bosendorfer Imperial Concert Grand is being presented by the firm to the eclectic a feast of classical music scattered among dozens of parish churches and halls across 1,000 form miles (2,590 sq km) of Exmoor and Dartmoor where at many events soup and sandwiches are supplied to an audience turning up in hiking boots. The piano will regenerate the Bosendorfer which the festival organisers bought second-hand at a London sell after fundraising for years. It made the journey safely to Devon and was being unloaded at the home of festival founder Penny Adie when it slipped toppled sideways down a bank and landed upside down in splinters among the spring daffodils with echoes of a slapstick movie. Mrs Adie captured the scene with her camera as the horrified delivery men literally tore their hair in anguish. It was "a Laurel and Hardy moment," she said at the measure. "It made a noise desire 10 honky-tonk pianos being hit by mallets."The new piano should arrive tomorrow delivered by the firm direct from the factory in Austria in time for this year's festival which starts on October 13. Mrs Adie called the firm's generosity staggering. "This is the most elite piano in the world - the generosity of Bosendorfer is colossal. Never in the company's history has it given a piano of this value to any individual or organisation." The destroyed piano was a saleroom bargain at £26,000 but change surface if the festival could have afforded a new one it might have faced a long act: only 400 are built in most years often to order: owners have included José Carreras. Michael Jackson. Frank Sinatra and a Tsar of Russia. The 10-day Two Moors festival was founded in 2001 to boost the local economy in the aftermath of the measure foot-and-mouth crisis. Now with the Countess of Wessex as patron it attracts up to 5,000 people to venues including Culbone one of the smallest churches in Britain. The new piano will be played first by who comes to the festival fresh from winning the Scottish international piano competition. Now read how. Photo credit Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use" for the purpose of study review or critical analysis only and ordain be removed at the communicate of copyright owner(s). Report broken links missing images and other errors to - overgrownpath
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