Little Mystery

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Mystery Piano in Woods Puzzles Police
By Josh Levs, CNN

Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.
Discovered by a woman who was walking a trail, the Baldwin Acrosonic piano, model number 987, is intact -- and, apparently, in tune.

Sgt. Adam Hutton of the Harwich Police Department said information has been broadcast to all the other police departments in the Cape Cod area in hopes of drumming up a clue, however minor it may be.
But so far, the investigation is flat.
Also of note: Near the mystery piano -- serial number 733746 -- was a bench, positioned as though someone was about to play.
The piano was at the end of a dirt road, near a walking path to a footbridge in the middle of conservation land near the Cape.
It took a handful of police to move the piano into a vehicle to transport it to storage, so it would appear that putting it into the woods took more than one person.
Asked whether Harwich police will be holding a holiday party in the storage bay -- tickling the ivories, pouring eggnog -- while they await word of the piano's origin and fate, Hutton laughed. No such plans.
Harwich police have had some fun, though. Among the photos they sent to the news media is one of Officer Derek Dutra examining the piano in the woods. The police titled the photo "Liberace."

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Well now we know why Axl hasn't said anything yet, he was in Massachusetts playing piano in the woods!

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If they found foot prints on top of it...............

I was thinking maybe video shoot?

Maybe something to do with the Elton John/Billy Joel tour?

but coming home, I was thinking a piano always puts a smile on people's faces but maybe it wasn't set up to be played.  Maybe it was part of some elaborate suicide and the player just walked away after the last song.

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I was stuck behind a slow moving train AND running late when I came up with that.  Ignore me   

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drumming up a clue, however minor

That was lame--lol.