Von Richthofen's GRAND PIANO??

[Gregvan]

If you have a lot of time to waste, and are in need of a bit of a strange laugh - take a look at this:

The Red Baron Rosendorfer Barons DR1 Fokker White Grand - eBay (item 220443455941 end time Jul-07-09 05:32:19 PDT)

I've seen a lot of bizarre things supposedly 'related' to Richthofen on ebay, but this rambling, incoherent and totally weird auction takes the cake!

I'm still not sure what the 'seller' is trying to say (the perils of using on-line translation sites?) but I think they are trying to imply there is some connection between this grand piano and the Red Baron?

I wonder what the seller was, er.....smoking when they wrote this up.

Anyway, if you're in desperate need of a laugh...

Greg

[ONEALM]

I understand he had his Baby Grand sewn into the lining of his clothes just in case he was captured.

[Laserlloyd]

OMG what Gibberish.

I know this is a typo but it this says it all,

"a team from the Austrailan Royal Air Force and British at the cemetery on the 22nd April 1981 the day after he crashed"

I think what he meant to say was this was "the day after it was made".

Lloyd...

[Otis Glenn]

Hey Guys:

Well... I am just speechless. What kind of a scam is this person trying to pull?

By the way, if the piano was Richthofen shouldn't it be red? However it is actually all white. Doesn't that mean it is actually Goering's?

Glenn

[JFM]

"During the encounter Von Richthofen never expected artilliery, but he had more to worry about. Raine? - No. Cat's? - No. Flying lessons? - Probably. .The little Church at Veux-Sur-Somme still standing saw the pilot May nearly lead Von Richtofen into the tower after the chase along the canal and coming out of the mist above the water. The Sleepy Sof an as good as dead memory. hores remind me of the sope of the Morlancourt Ridge adjacent to which is the river to its north as it turns from north-west to south. You can hear the bell as it tolls on the piano but it isnt any bell but the sinking lower toward the bogland as aircraft may dive to pick up speed or climb quicker, that the triplane could yet on another day ..never cease to ask for whom the bell tolls: it tolls... it tolls for thy dog which is thee Manfred..which be your last circle or not your gramophone when but a piano? - your last flight of J.S.Bach just not thatofen except it isnt - not exactly as Bach in his German castles wrote it so guess he was not so popular at that time - we end it abruptly as it was for our guy Manfred and his German music he must have loved and played incessently on the gramophone's base camp away from the mind of the Flying Circus above the living and the living dead - "corpses" taking on some respite."

I once heard my old lead singer slur something similar while in an opium stupor backstage...

[Ricardo Reis]

This (auction) is a true art work. Print and frame!

[Jenny]

Surely the "seller"means Bosendorfer, not Rosendorfer. Bosendorfrers are some of the best pianos in the world. Never heard of Rosendoefer. How weird do you have to be to NOT be allowed to post on E-bay? Jenny

[Sagittarius]

Very cool indeed!

I appreciate that the seller mentions the famous german flying ace Johann Sebastian Bach.

But where the hell are the Spandaus and the propeller? Do i have to buy them seperately?

Btw: Some might interest that in germany a piano is often referred to be a 'Flügel' (wing)...

[Laserlloyd]

There's a sucker born every minute
P.T. Barnum

[GMU]

Frankly, I am still confused. It is not clear to me what is he selling, and what the connection to MvR is.

Is the piano made out of wood from MvR ‘s crashed Dr.1?

I guess I need some of what he is smoking.