Replacement Piano Safely Delivered To Festival After Delivery Workers Drop Original

A grand piano costing £85,000 has been delivered safely to a Devon music festival after the original piano was dropped by delivery men.

The Two Moors Festival organisers in South Molton (starting October 12) had spent a long two years fundraising for a £45,000 Bosendorfer piano. Clumsy delivery workers accidentally let the instrument slip as they unloaded it from the van, leaving festival organiser Penny Adie without a showpiece instrument - not to mention the wasted £45,000!

Piano specialists Bosendorfer saved the day by agreeing to step in and donate an £85,000 Imperial Concert grand piano. The replacement was delivered by their staff all the way from Austria and escaped without a scratch!

Mrs Adie has said,

“They drove from Vienna with the piano and slept in the van overnight. We gave them a big breakfast this morning, they did a dummy delivery run, and very calmly and efficiently moved the piano without a hitch.

“It is such an immaculate instrument I cannot believe it is there. It is almost too good to be true.”

Bosendorfer hand-build around 400 pianos a year and are renowned around Europe. First in the queue to play Mrs Adie’s new Imperial Concert grand piano is Tom Poster, a concert pianist from Glasgow who has just won the Scottish International Piano Competition.

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