A vintage baby grand piano that became a beachside attraction in Half Moon Bay has sounded its last note.
Local artist Mauro Ffortissimo’s project ended yesterday in a blaze of glory, as you can see below. His original concept was to let the elements have their way with the sound of the already rusty and untunable piano. But city code enforcement officials told him he couldn’t continue without a permit. So he decided he would play while the piano burned.
“There’s a way, I don’t know if you heard at Burning Man, when they do the effigy, you use the kind of fire accelerator that you could brush over and basically you have the whole silhouette catch on fire before it burns, so you’ll see the whole piano on fire,” he said before the performance. “And by then I think I will walk away.”
Ffortissimo said he plans to use the charred remains of the piano in his sculptures.
