[lit-ideas] Re: Hereabouts
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- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:43:42 +0200
On 12. Apr 2021, at 20:37, david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 12, 2021, at 11:25 AM, epostboxx@xxxxxxxx wrote:
It could be that one or more of [her] grandchildren are to be seen towards
the end of Nena's latest video (which looks like it was shot on the
endlessly long beach at Sankt Peter Ordung on the North Sea at low tide):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ZoGuOv26I
The only way I imagine you get a piano into that spot without a mark in the
sand is with a helicopter. Unless you drop the piano into the water and
pretend that it still works.
Quite ze logistics, nicht?
The matchless and exceptional Rahini Nietzsche and I were also wondering about
that as we watched the video.
Since Nena (born 'Gabriele Susanne Kerner,' by the way) is far and away one of
Germany's most successful (i.e., for her recording company most profitable)
'pop' stars, I suppose the cost of staging and shooting such a video was not
much of an issue.
As you suggest, it could well be that the piano was 'delivered' (or even
dropped into place) while the tide was a bit higher, letting the receding water
wash any tracks away - 'pretending that it still works' is no less plausible
then imaging that the voice we hear on the recordings is a reproduction of the
sounds we see Nena 'mouthing' in the video.
The cost these days of an upright piano 'that has seen better days' is
virtually nothing (other than the transportation costs). Such instruments
figure regularly in the 'Zu Verschenken' ['To Be Given Away'] column of the
newspaper (with the understanding that the 'recipients' will provide their own
transportation, of course).
They - or at any rate pieces of them - also appear from time to time in the
media as components of various 'artistic' / 'do-it-yourself' projects. Even
though I myself have succumbed to the 'heresy' of playing a 'digital'
instrument, I still shudder at the sight ...
Chris Bruce,
who has probably saved the cost of his digital piano several times over
by never needing to have it tuned or otherwise attended to by a piano
technician in the past 15 years, in
Kiel, Germany
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