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| - The Farmer is playing his piano which is just rubbish. A phone call ends the Farmer's music and Bitzer plays and the flock start to dance to it but then the Farmer sends him outside to get the sheep to bed and when the farmer went to get ready for bed, two of the sheep move the piano outside, and Bitzer notices and gets it back to the house (which wasn't easy) before the Farmer called the cops and sent them to jail. In the end, the Farmer throws his piano in the junk pile, after it breaks and in the end, Bitzer play the harp found in the piano and smiles when a hole shows his head.
- One day, the girl was strolling along the town with her parents and noticed a grand piano in a small shop. The piano looked old and worn out, but also very antique. The girl begged her parents to buy the piano so she could play it at home, and finally, her parents gave in and asked the shopkeeper how much the piano cost. The shopkeeper was a old woman, who replied it was only a hundred dollars. The girl's parents agreed to buy her the piano, which was then delivered to their house for free.
- The Piano is a 1993 erotic-drama written and directed by Jane Campion, and starring Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel and Anna Paquin. Hunter stars as a mute woman named Ada McGrath who, along with her precocious daughter Flora (Paquin), are shipped off to New Zealand after Ada's father arranges a marriage with her new husband, Alisdair Stewart (Neil). Ada leaves her native early Victorian Scotland, but brings along her beloved piano, which she considers to be her voice, regardless of her silence. Of course, Alisdair doesn't bother with the piano, and it is left on the beach. This leads to Ada's initial reticence at the marriage becoming active hostility, and things become more tense between the newlyweds when Stewart sells the piano to a neighbor, George Baines (Keitel).
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| - The Farmer is playing his piano which is just rubbish. A phone call ends the Farmer's music and Bitzer plays and the flock start to dance to it but then the Farmer sends him outside to get the sheep to bed and when the farmer went to get ready for bed, two of the sheep move the piano outside, and Bitzer notices and gets it back to the house (which wasn't easy) before the Farmer called the cops and sent them to jail. In the end, the Farmer throws his piano in the junk pile, after it breaks and in the end, Bitzer play the harp found in the piano and smiles when a hole shows his head.
- One day, the girl was strolling along the town with her parents and noticed a grand piano in a small shop. The piano looked old and worn out, but also very antique. The girl begged her parents to buy the piano so she could play it at home, and finally, her parents gave in and asked the shopkeeper how much the piano cost. The shopkeeper was a old woman, who replied it was only a hundred dollars. The girl's parents agreed to buy her the piano, which was then delivered to their house for free. As soon as the piano arrived, the girl wanted to play it right away. Her parents invited their relatives to come and watch her. She sat in front of the piano and began to play. But halfway into her music, she felt a sharp pain in her fingers. It felt like a small jab of a needle. The girl's parents didn't want to disappoint their relatives and ordered the girl to continue playing. Eventually, after the visit was over and the relatives left, the girl was very worn out and passed out on her bed. Over the next few weeks, the girl continued playing the piano about thirty minutes a day. She kept feeling the sharp pains and discomfort each time she played, and on some occasions, she even collapsed out of exhaustion. But she kept playing and keeping on. One day, while playing the piano, the girl noticed one of the critical keys were jammed. She and her parents brought it to the old woman, who offered to fix it for no cost. She did, however, ask the parents to leave the store, because the repair might not work if the curtains weren't drawn. Soon, the woman came back and said the piano was fixed. The parents brought it back home, and the girl continued playing. Over the next few weeks, she got very skinny. Her arms and body were almost skeletal, and her cheeks were sunken. Again, one of the keys were jammed, and again, the girl's parents brought it to the old woman for repairs. She once again drew the curtains and began the repairs. The father, curiously, moved one curtain aside and peeked into the shop. What he saw shocked him. The old woman had lifted the cover of the piano and reached in. She took out a large jar full of red liquid, which she proceeded to drink greedily. The parents realized it was blood, and immediately called the police, but the woman was nowhere to be found when they arrived. The father disassembled the piano and, being a somewhat experienced mechanic, discovered what happened. The piano's keyboards had been embedded with hollow, microscopic needles. Every time the girl played the piano, the keys would draw some blood from her fingers. The blood was then drawn through pipes into a special glass jar that kept the blood cells alive, and once the jar was full, the piano jammed a key, and the old woman would secretly drink the blood and place the jar back to "fix" the instrument. The girl's parents quickly sold it online for fifty dollars. Meanwhile, The girl suffered major blood loss, and doctors discovered the needles also contained a chemical that weakened the bone marrow's ability to produce blood. The old woman replaced this chemical during every fix, and the chemical was injected into the girl's bloodstream by the same hollow needles. The girl suffered permanent bone damage, and died a few days later from an infection. Her weakened bone marrows were unable to produce any more white blood cells to battle the bacteria. The old woman was never found. Police discovered a secret escape door in the store, and concluded that the woman ran down there when the girl's father phoned the police, and escaped. The girl was buried in a church graveyard in the center of the city.
- The Piano is a 1993 erotic-drama written and directed by Jane Campion, and starring Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel and Anna Paquin. Hunter stars as a mute woman named Ada McGrath who, along with her precocious daughter Flora (Paquin), are shipped off to New Zealand after Ada's father arranges a marriage with her new husband, Alisdair Stewart (Neil). Ada leaves her native early Victorian Scotland, but brings along her beloved piano, which she considers to be her voice, regardless of her silence. Of course, Alisdair doesn't bother with the piano, and it is left on the beach. This leads to Ada's initial reticence at the marriage becoming active hostility, and things become more tense between the newlyweds when Stewart sells the piano to a neighbor, George Baines (Keitel). Baines proposes a deal to Ada - she can earn her piano back, key-by-key, if she lets him do certain things while she plays. These "things" begin as simple as allowing him to touch her knee through a hole in her stocking, but grow into more overtly requests. While Ada initially begins these lessons as a means solely to gain access to her piano, she grows to love Baines, and the two begin a clandestine affair. At the same time, Flora's boredom in the new home leads her to start interfering with the adults around her, and Ada's hatred of Stewart leads him to grow more and more frustrated as things grow ever closer to a breaking point. The film was incredibly well received, nominated for 8 Academy Awards and winning 3 of them (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing). It is a very popular film amongst women, often championing the common battle-of-the-sexes debate as to the difference between pornography and erotica: the film has some very explicit sex scenes, but they are very artfully done. It did very well at the box office. Despite its small production budget, it earned about 40 million dollars at the United States market. Where it was the 36th most successful film of its year. Not to be confused with The Piano Teacher, or The Pianist
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