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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:\\ 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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 {{:baker_spirit:piano_drops:v92-n42_page_01.jpg?nolink|}} {{:baker_spirit:piano_drops:v92-n42_page_01.jpg?nolink|}}
  
-{{gallery>:1972_charles_rosenblatt?160x160&crop&lightbox&showname&0}}+{{gallery>:1972_charles_rosenblatt}}
 Charles Rosenblatt '72\\ Charles Rosenblatt '72\\
 The first piano drop  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. 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:** **Bill writes:**
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-{{gallery>:1972_piano_drop_rigsbee?160x160&crop&lightbox&showname&0}}+{{gallery>:1972_piano_drop_rigsbee}}
 1972 Piano Drop\\ 1972 Piano Drop\\
 Images by Peter Rigsbee '76 Images by Peter Rigsbee '76
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 ===== Piano Drop 1974? 1975? ===== ===== Piano Drop 1974? 1975? =====
  
-{{gallery>:1977_ted_goetz?160x160&crop&lightbox&showname&0}}+{{gallery>:1977_ted_goetz}}
 Ted Goetz '77\\ Ted Goetz '77\\
 Piano drop (probably 1975, maybe 1974) Piano drop (probably 1975, maybe 1974)
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 ===== Piano Drop 2005 ===== ===== Piano Drop 2005 =====
  
-{{gallery>:baker_spirit:piano_drops:2005?160x160&crop&lightbox&showname&0}}+{{gallery>:baker_spirit:piano_drops:2005}}
 Piano Drop 2005-04-21 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}}
  
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