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--- baker_spirit:piano_drops [2022/12/13 22:41] – [Piano Drop 2013] admin
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 ====== Piano Drops ======
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 Winning nomination (and commentary) of the "Baker House Piano Drop" as the top-vote-getter of 150 objects picked to represent MIT over the entire 150-year sweep of the Institute's history:\\
-http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1430
+http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1430 (looks like a dead link)\\
+https://alum.mit.edu/slice/baker-piano-drop-leads-150-vote-countso-far\\
+https://news.mit.edu/2011/mit150-kickoff
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+{{gallery>:1972_charles_rosenblatt}}
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+Charles Rosenblatt '72\\
-title      : Charles Rosenblatt '72
+The first piano drop
-description: The first piano drop
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 The consensus is that the first piano was dropped in late October <del>November</del> of 1972.
-Bill Short made a movie short of the piano drop, which is on YouTube here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9mT4JaW_0|Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop (The First MIT Baker House Piano Drop, November 1972)]].
+Bill Short made a movie short of the piano drop, which is on YouTube here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoDsA1WnMAU|First Baker House Piano Drop at MIT (1972)]].
 **Bill writes:**
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+{{gallery>:1972_piano_drop_rigsbee}}
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+Piano Drop\\
-title         : 1972 Piano Drop
+Images by Peter Rigsbee '76
-description   : Images by Peter Rigsbee '76
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 ===== Piano Drop 1974? 1975? =====
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+{{gallery>:1977_ted_goetz}}
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+Ted Goetz '77\\
-title      : Ted Goetz '77
+Piano drop (probably 1975, maybe 1974)
-description: Piano drop (probably 1975, maybe 1974)
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 **On "where did all the pianos come from"**\\
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 ===== Piano Drop 2005 =====
----- photogallery show ----
+{{gallery>:baker_spirit:piano_drops:2005}}
-namespace  : :baker_spirit:piano_drops:2005
+Piano Drop 2005-04-21
-title      : Piano Drop 2005-04-21
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-{{gallery>:2013-10-25_piano_drop?160x160&crop&lightbox&showname}}
+{{gallery>:2013-10-25_piano_drop}}