Wow, this is still a mystery!
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Identified! UK - Sheerness, Kent, 'Piano Man' mystery, Apr'05 - Andreas Grassl
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It was thought he was a musical genius who'd lost his mind, tried to kill himself and retreated into a world of silence.. but he's really a gay German who fooled docs and can barely play a note
THE mysterious Piano Man has finally broken his silence after more than four months - and has been exposed as a fake.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obj...=exclusive--58--piano-man-sham-name_page.html
THE mysterious Piano Man has finally broken his silence after more than four months - and has been exposed as a fake.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obj...=exclusive--58--piano-man-sham-name_page.html
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Yeah- I was gonna post this!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4172662.stm
'Piano Man' discharged from care
The unidentified man appeared in Kent in April
The so-called Piano Man has been released from hospital after his condition improved.
A national newspaper reported on Monday the man finally broke his silence, stated he was German, and flew home.
West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust said it could not comment on the report because of patient confidentiality.
The man, who it was claimed was an excellent pianist, was found wandering on Sheppey in April and has been in psychiatric care since then.
A statement issued on Monday by the trust said the patient had been discharged following a marked improvement in his condition but the rules regarding patient confidentiality meant there would be no further statement.
'Stunning performance'
The trust also declined to comment on the circumstances in which the patient left its care.
The man was first taken to Medway Maritime Hospital where he drew a picture of a grand piano and was then taken to the hospital chapel.
It was reported that health and social workers said they were "stunned" when he proceeded to give them a virtuoso performance.
However, newspaper reports now suggest he was only able to play one note continuously.
Theories put forward and later discounted included that the man was a French street musician and a Czech concert pianist.
The mystery man produced a pencil drawing of a piano
A Norwegian speaker was brought in to try to communicate with the man, in his 20s or early 30s, after he pointed to Oslo on a map.
A ship from Norway was thought to have been in the area when he was found and there were suggestions that his suit was soaked because he had been in the sea.
His social worker Michael Camp claimed that his client "came to life" at the piano.
All the labels had been removed from his clothes when he was found on The Broadway in Minster, Sheerness.
Appeals led to a worldwide response which at its height generated more than 800 leads.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4172662.stm
'Piano Man' discharged from care
The unidentified man appeared in Kent in April
The so-called Piano Man has been released from hospital after his condition improved.
A national newspaper reported on Monday the man finally broke his silence, stated he was German, and flew home.
West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust said it could not comment on the report because of patient confidentiality.
The man, who it was claimed was an excellent pianist, was found wandering on Sheppey in April and has been in psychiatric care since then.
A statement issued on Monday by the trust said the patient had been discharged following a marked improvement in his condition but the rules regarding patient confidentiality meant there would be no further statement.
'Stunning performance'
The trust also declined to comment on the circumstances in which the patient left its care.
The man was first taken to Medway Maritime Hospital where he drew a picture of a grand piano and was then taken to the hospital chapel.
It was reported that health and social workers said they were "stunned" when he proceeded to give them a virtuoso performance.
However, newspaper reports now suggest he was only able to play one note continuously.
Theories put forward and later discounted included that the man was a French street musician and a Czech concert pianist.
The mystery man produced a pencil drawing of a piano
A Norwegian speaker was brought in to try to communicate with the man, in his 20s or early 30s, after he pointed to Oslo on a map.
A ship from Norway was thought to have been in the area when he was found and there were suggestions that his suit was soaked because he had been in the sea.
His social worker Michael Camp claimed that his client "came to life" at the piano.
All the labels had been removed from his clothes when he was found on The Broadway in Minster, Sheerness.
Appeals led to a worldwide response which at its height generated more than 800 leads.
Well, I dont think they should charge him. I think it is their fault this got blown way overboard. I mean, come on, how in the he** did it go from him being a virtuoso, to tapping on the same key over and over. This man never made any claims of any kind to anyone. The media and the Dr.'s turned this all into a big thing, not this man. Think about it, he was trying to commit suicide, so he was in a depressed state to begin with. The police rescued him, took him to a hospital, he would not talk. That is not against the law. Others turned this into the big ordeal it became, not him. He just chose to remain silent, maybe he was so depressed and/or tramatized over something in his life that up until today he chose to/ or COULD not talk. I am still stunned on how they could call him a virtuoso, and now they say all he did was tap a key over and over. I think they need thier heads examined!
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A German man who baffled police and care workers after being found wandering in a soaking wet suit near a southern English beach, refusing to speak, has returned to Germany after four months in care.
The man was dubbed the "Piano Man" by the media after supposedly giving a virtuoso piano performance while being treated in a psychiatric unit, where doctors failed to identify him despite being inundated with hundreds of suggestions.
The 20-year-old from the southern state of Bavaria returned home on Saturday after the German embassy had verified his nationality and provided him with replacement documents, a German foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.
He declined to give the man's name or say where he was now living.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle...45198§ion=news&src=rss/uk/oddlyEnoughNews
The man was dubbed the "Piano Man" by the media after supposedly giving a virtuoso piano performance while being treated in a psychiatric unit, where doctors failed to identify him despite being inundated with hundreds of suggestions.
The 20-year-old from the southern state of Bavaria returned home on Saturday after the German embassy had verified his nationality and provided him with replacement documents, a German foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.
He declined to give the man's name or say where he was now living.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle...45198§ion=news&src=rss/uk/oddlyEnoughNews
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Later articles state he returned home to Germany. I hope he is well.
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Later articles state he returned home to Germany. I hope he is well.
Andreas Grassl
...On a warm spring afternoon, in the U.K. Isle of Sheppey, police found a man in a drenched suit wandering down a seaside road. The man had no identification on himself, appeared confused and most mysterious of all, was completely mute...
Dumbfounded, authorities transferred him to a nearby hospital for evaluation, hoping that some syringes and surgical masks would perhaps coax/scare some response out of him, but to no avail. Their only clue as to his identity: When given a pencil and paper, the man drew a detailed image of a grand piano...
The mysterious piano man continued to baffle hospital staff and the rest of the world for another four months, remaining mute and communicating only through art and music. The lack of information about his identify and the odd circumstances surrounding his situation resulted in people doing what they know to do best, fill in the blanks with the most mind-blowing explanations conceivable. Rumors began to swirl, ranging from him being an autistic savant who could play anything from classical music by Tchaikovsky to pop music by The Beatles, to him being a missing French street musician who had his voice box removed.
Finally, our silent friend evidently grew tired of baffling the world, and one day he just decided to start speaking again. Once that happened, imagination bubbles worldwide burst, dreams were crushed, and hopes diminished, as it quickly became apparent that Mr. Piano Man was less amazing musical genius and more just your average emo kid with a rebellious streak. The mystery man in question? 20-year-old Andreas Grassl, a recently unemployed non-musician from Germany who had traveled to the U.K. on an impulse and decided to play mute because he was displeased with how the police treated him (aren’t we all Andreas, aren’t we all?). And that magical music that was rumored to have poured from Grassl’s fingertips when in contact with a piano? Turns out that was just a tiny bit exaggerated, and that “he was only able to play one note continuously.”
LINK:
The Top 3 Piano Mysteries… that were Solved - OnlinePianist