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| Incognito Beatification Candidate  |
All that artificial tail-end not used for string length sort of precludes it from being a true "concert grand". (Kimball could have stuck a 5 foot projection on the back of a LaPetite and called it a "concert grand"?) Hate the red bits. Hate the base. Hate the clear acrylic. I think there are some elements there that could be worked with, but I don't like where the designer has gone with them.
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly  |
I'm no fan of post modernism, but I kind of like it. Oh, I'd rather have a rococo Knabsteindorfering from 100 years ago, but this one works for me.
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
From this angle, it looks like that black Euro toilet in the upstairs bath of one house I considered: 
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
That angle makes it look Star Trekkie to me - but I didn't see the toilet in question!
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Yup, a resemblance to something Start Trekkie:  | |||
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana |
A Zorba-approved instrument, lifted from the French Wiki page on pianos:  | |||
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| Nobody's $hillbot Has Achieved Nirvana |
This is how an outfit called Piano Logistics packs up a 6 ft grand for shipment to Tokyo:  | |||
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Minor Deity |
Well, I see what might be legs, or lyre and bench and music rack but what is the curved triangular small package on the top middle?
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
Just my guess:  Aside from the bench sides and lyre, that rectangular box might include the castors, if they are not on the legs at shipping. Music desk is likely stowed in its usual place, padded. Prop stick, too.
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| Minor Deity |
Good thing it is not a 'square piano'!!! Thanks superman...I mean CG. I can see you have x-ray eyes. I love it. A place for everything. Doesn't look like much room for a stowaway though, huh?
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Oh yea!
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
Passenger liners in rough seas aren't kind environments for pianos: 
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| Revenant Beatification Candidate  |
And I suppose poor Elton was seasick too.
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| "The Veiled Male" Gadfly |
Why the *&!@#$^*!&@#^ wasn't that thing bolted to the deck? I go to sea on research vessels as a regular part of my job, we'd NEVER put to sea with an unsecured 1,200 pound object - ever hear the term "loose cannon"?
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| Incognito Beatification Candidate |
I wondered the same. Note, it's even still on castors. The pianos on the Queen Mary had special legs about 18 inches wide by 8 inches thick. They were bolted to the floor. They survived the ship turning on its side to a list of 75-80 degrees when hit by a rogue wave (the incident that was the basis for Paul Gallico's "The Poseiden Adventure") (But they didn't survive the string of Long Beach owners, who sold them cheaply at auction). Apparently the Dutch have been smoking some of that legal stuff and forgot about such things on their ship. On QM, they were quite like this little Challen at Maximiliaan's in NYC, though larger concert models. They weren't about to fall over or provide a carnival ride like one may see in "The Legend of 1900":  (I also reckoned that Elton was in his cabin green-gilled and having lost his toupee in the lou, Frycek.  )
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