Portable Pianoforte

As I was recently reviewing the Revelstoke Times Review I happened upon the picture to the right (The Music Makers). This has to be one of the coolest things I've seen in awhile. As described in the RTR:

 

Harrisen Kaiser (left) and Al Procyshyn teamed up last week to entertain the crowd at the Farmer’s Market. The piano is mounted on a special frame that allows Kaiser to pedal it around city streets. David F. Rooney/Times Review

 

This brought to mind an annual event that used to take place in Kaslo many years ago. Every year we would move Dare Guthrie's upright piano out of the back room of the Village Green Cafe and move it up the hill to the Kaslo Arena for the Langham Benefit. While the piano and the bench were in the back of a pickup Bob "Pussy Fingers" Campbell, keyboardist with the Dreaded Whirlies, would tickle the ivories while the truck took a a couple extra laps around downtown for the amusement and entertainment of the locals. Other news from the Times-Review includes:

 

BC booze sales up

 

B.C. residents and visitors drank their way through more than 380 million litres of alcoholic beverages in the 12 months ended in June, up more than four per cent from the previous year. (Aug 22 2007)