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Angela Hewitt’s $200,000 Piano Destroyed By Movers

MUSIC Posted: February 11, 2020 6:03 am

She had just finished recording some Beethoven, and movers were taking her piano from the Berlin studio; they dropped it while trying to lift it onto a hand truck, and the instrument’s iron frame crashed and its lid split in two. The Fazioli F278, custom-made for Hewitt, was the only one of its model with four pedals; Paolo Fazioli himself examined it and called it “unsalvageable.” – The Guardian

MUSIC Published: 02.11.20

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 02.11.20

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