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{{trope}}
[[File:falling piano 250 6702.jpg|frame|Depending on the setting, that umbrella might actually protect him.]]
Basically, a piano which is being lifted via pully to be moved into or out of someone's high-rise apartment will always fall, almost always on someone/something, often with a resounding "BONG". [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity usually ensues]]. A common gag more often seen in cartoons includes the character rising up from within the wreckage with a mouthful of piano keys like teeth. Bonus points if they start playing by themselves.
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Not to be confused with [[Colony Drop]].
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== Advertising ==
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* More advertising, this time featuring a piano being pushed upstairs. Part of the PG Tips [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzEBLa3PPk "Chimps" campaign,] and possibly the most famous ad in Britain.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODB9xXLZ2oE That Nespresso advertisment] with George Clooney uses this premise.
* There's a wonderful [https://web.archive.org/web/20160325095907/http://cassies.adbeast.com/2001winners/reels/sr_clarica/index.html commercial for Clarica investment company] (now merged with Sun Life) in which a woman is sitting at a bus stop. Suddenly, a man at the bus stop across the street looks hectically up at the sky, then madly starts gesticulating, pointing, and yelling, but she can't hear him. Finally someone else comes along, sees what the man's so freaked out about, [[Hammerspace|pulls out]] a piece of cardboard and a marker, draws a [[Talking with Signs|big up arrow]], and shows it to the woman. She looks up, then dives out of the way an instant before a falling piano crushes the bus stop. The tagline: "There's a lot to be said for clarity."
== Comic Books ==
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* Peacock in ''[[Skullgirls]]'' can drop a piano on you, and roughly 20 other items of varying sizes as well.
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* In ''[[The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat]]'', having a piano dropped on your head and playing the keys right, [http://dtoons.com/conroy/2011/01/piano-lessons/ is part of his training to become a toon star.]
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[[Category:Amusing Injuries]]
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Zany Cartoon Tropes]]
[[Category:Piano Drop]]
[[Category:Falling, Dropping, and Plummeting]]
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