{"id":2979,"date":"2011-01-31T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2011-01-31T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:53:08","slug":"sandbar-became-world-renowned-piano-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/sandbar-became-world-renowned-piano-bar-2979\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandbar Became World Renowned Piano Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early January this puzzling mystery gave a whole new meaning to the phrase &#8220;piano bar.&#8221;<br \/>\nA grand piano appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Miami.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/piano-on-sandbar.jpg\" title=\"Piano on sandbar, piano bar\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"425\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How and why the piano got there was a mystery.<br \/>\nA grand piano weighs at least 650 pounds and is unwieldly to move, said Bob Shapiro, a salesman at Piano Music Center in Pembroke Park. &#8220;You don&#8217;t take it out there in a rowboat,&#8221; Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4OmLGN-SiUs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago the mystery was solved:<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In this Jan. 2, 2011 photo provided by Nicholas Harrington, Julian Kolevris-Roots, 18, is shown sitting at a piano on a sandbar in Miamis Biscayne Bay.\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/piano-sandbar-shot.jpg\" title=\"piano on sandbar\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Jan. 2, 2011 photo provided by Nicholas Harrington, Julian Kolevris-Roots, 18, is shown sitting at a piano on a sandbar in Miami&#39;s Biscayne Bay.<\/p><\/div>A young man &#8211; Nick Harrington, 16 &#8211; had intended to make a &#8220;surreal video&#8221; of the piano perched atop the sandbar\u2019s highest point, with Miami\u2019s glittering skyline as a backdrop, to impress the college admissions officers at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, where he hopes to study art or music.<br \/>\nOn January 2, Nick, his older brother, and two neighbors lifted the instrument onto the family&#8217;s 22-foot boat and took it out on Biscayne Bay, leaving it on the sandbar&#8217;s highest spot.<br \/>\nThe video was never made, although Nick and his family took some pictures of him pretending to play it while the piano was on fire. 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