Island a no-go- zone for feral pianos
Humphrey Bogart breaks the shock news to pianist buddy Sam that the Townville City Council has refused permission for a honky-tonk upright piano to be played in conjunction with a popular pop up food van, Shaka , on Magnetic Island .
The piano , shown above , down by the seaside , attracted a lot of attention from visitors to the island and an arty photograph of it is said to have won a competition down south .
Then it vanished . Word went out that the TCC had axed it , not literally .
Magnetic Island has a history of mistreating pianos . One in the open down at Radical Bay was knocked about at times , set alight, reduced to ashes .
It was respectfully used a few years ago by a group attending a special birthday party for a teenager , a camp set up next to the piano , which is on the far left of the following snap.
Playing crazy ting-ting music on the piano at the cool cats birthday party with a close up of the weathered innards.
