The Piano Man

If they think his 'smart' clothes have something to do with the possibility that he was playing piano shortly before the incident that left him soaked and speechless...well, they're more than likely wrong. A piano player probably wouldn't wear a tie, just b/c it would be bothersome. Even if it was pinned to his shirt, the bottom of the tie could flap about and get in the way of his hands. Unklikely. He might have worn a bowtie, or not worn one at all. Suit jackets also tend to be bothersome. But Tuxedo jacket w/ tails (Tuxedo jackets for pianists can be tailored to be shorter, so they can more easily turn at the waist) seems plausible.

My personal theory? He was on his way to work, decided he didn't like being a retail clerk, hopped into the water, swam someplace where no one knew him (or he could have boated and then left the boat), and is now getting 3 squares a day, and playing the piano - his true joy.

I think this is a Time Traveller....

I heard on BBC news that all labels of his clothes were removed when they found him.

By the way, the mentioning of removed clothing labels in the BBC piece, suggests a deliberate attempt to avoid identification. Intruiging...

It might also suggest foul play. Creepy.

The REAL question is... how did the mime tell the police he knew this guy? Sounds like a really lousy mime to me.

Or maybe he is just like great at charades...

3 words... 1st word... sounds like... Steven!!

He hasn't spoken since he was found a few weeks ago. He's probably autistic or something like that, and has a flair for the piano. If he has a mental condition, then he may have removed the labels from his clothes himself. Somebody in a vulnerable position could easily find themselves lost, and wandering in the rain for a few days before being picked up.

I'm sure they've tried running his prints through a database of some sort...possible DNA samples.

Maybe they send samples to other countries, to have them run some things through a database. Couldn't they also just check out missing persons reports?? I would think that would be the easiest way to start. If he's really off in the head, SOMEONE will have reported him missing.

Another update from europe:

According to the "Noordhollands Dagblad":
His name is Marcel of Mars Herder, 31 years of age, used to live in the town Krommenie. At the moment he is a resident of Amsterdam were he is listed as missing. Marcel is known as a poet, musician and sometimes he draws comics or other drawings. People know him as a talented young man.
Check these fotos of Marcel and the pianoman:
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/images/pianodude.html

oops, here is the link to the article (Dutch though):
http://www.nhd.nl/Index/0,4731,,00.html?sHoofdUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhd.nl%2FPagina%2F0%2C7106%2C15-1-1--2598602-1322-723605-%2C00.html

That picture comparison of Marcel and the Pianoman look nothing alike. The position of the eyes are off and the chin lines are completely different.

Rather than Shine, check out the parallels between PianoMan and the very recent British film Ladies In Lavender in which (I think) Judi Dench and Maggie Smith find an enigmatic young man washed up on their beach speaking no English, and who turns out to be a virtuoso violinist.

Intriguing.

See http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0377084/plotsummary for a summary of 'Ladies in Lavender'.

Frankly, I am more than irritated by news stories that confuse fact and fiction (or fantasy). I don't like stories that say "isn't a bit like such-and-such a film/book"; that sort of thing does nothing to enlighten the reader; worse than that it's an insult to the reader's intelligence.

They are making a big deal about it because it would help them to know who he is, but it is not a very rare medical presntation.

per MedicineNet.com

Elective mutism: Complete lack of speech (mutism) that is believed to be volitional (willed) on the part of the patient.

True elective mutism may be a reaction to a traumatic event, the aftermath of an injury to the mouth or throat, particularly if it is painful, or a symptom of extreme shyness.

In some cases, the lack of speech is eventually found not to be volitional, but a sign of damage or deformity of the speech apparatus, or a feature of infantile autism.

My cousin's cousin (second cousin? Cousin twice removed?) had a sort of elective mutism. Attention seeking reasons, apparently.

Marcel of Mars Herder (see previous comment) who was missing came forward to the police to identify himself. So he isn

I base my comments on what has been reported to have been said

Boo in the land of Haggii, just to clear up the relationship bit. Start with parents, there are children, at least two. These siblings have children, at least one each. Those children are first cousins, normally just cousins. The first cousins have children. These are second cousins, two generations removed from the siblings. The number qualifier in front of the word cousins shows how many generations the people are from the original siblings. Any number qualifier after the word cousins designates how many generations one of the pair is from the other. If the second cousins had children, those would be third cousins but second cousins once removed from the second cousins. Your cousin's cousin is no relation to you merely on that score, unless that person has some other blood or marriage connection. I had to learn this in elementary school in the 50's.

Now, as far as piano man goes, the last comment I heard on the news about him (although Jay Leno had a good joke on the mime who knows him) was that this guy is always agitated unless he is playing the piano. The report said that the music was classical-sounding but was not any known composition, and that the music he wrote was classical and was quality work. The playing wasn't up to the standard of the writing. Maybe this guy was a private piano player for the Secret Masters and they decided to get rid of him because They decided he wasn't good enough.

I'm glad to have found your site fielding the possibility that this is a hoax. I smelled a rat right from the start.

I've posted a few blogs on the subject, mostly tongue in cheek. But I still think he will be exposed in the end.

As far as I'm concerned the media have been way too accepting about this.

BTW, blog URL is http://matthayden.blog-city.com

Well, I'm waiting for the movie that Hollywood is certain to do very soon from now...

Only the media painted him as a classical pianist, his carers merely said that he played beautifully. None of them know classical music but it's been later identified as Swan Lake and he plays some John Lennon.

He was found in a dinner suit which is perfectly normal attire for a "gig" as apposed to, just played the royal albert hall... They actually checked if he'd been attending a local funeral first.

The music he wrote was verified, I assume as in checked to be properly written musical score and not made up jibberish.

He has been likened to the canadian "mr nobody" who is now apparantly missing... which has not been officially commented on yet. Personally I think they look similar but aint the same guy. Who knows! It's a weird coincidence etc etc

I don't think it's a hoax anyway, no matter whether he is autistic, tried to commit suicide or cut his labels off and offered himself as a nut for some solitude. Even if he's an asylum seeker, it must be in some extremely difficult circumstances to stay mute for over 6 weeks voluntarily or not. Heck that would drive most people crazy itself.

Secure hospitals aren't exactly happy hotels and anyone who's been to one knows you don't just go hang out there for the fun of it. Then again it may be a damn site better than something he's been used to before. Let's not forget he won't be allowed to leave when he fancies, not until he's deemed not a risk etc

Personally I think the poor guys just had enough cr*p somewhere along the line. Internationally, not one person has come forward with who he is yet... (not that we know of anyway). Just in comparison, even reality TV stars get their old school pals selling their story for cash to the press. This guy has no family/friends/old school pals/college friends/teachers/local shop assistant?! I'm sure someone from my local shop would recognise me if I was plastered on everything. If he has had plastic surgery, where's the surgeon/hospital shouting "that's the guy we did!"

No matter the reason he's there, I really wish him well.

Show is go on:

"The amnesiac is not Steve, I saw my brother yesterday in Nice," Julie Villa Massone said on Wednesday, while the man's cousin Denis said he had spoken with the man earlier on Wednesday by telephone.

Witnesses said they saw Massone perform on Tuesday in front of Nice's main courthouse, as he does nearly every day, according to his family".

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=238725

The UFO

No Didio, it wasn't UFO's it was the Secret Masters.

By the way, who said Yeti can't play piano?

In my personal oppinion, he's obviously suffered a severe amount of trauma, which has resulted in what i would call a Shakespeare's Strain, an over torsion, or disconnection of one or the other solar plexus nerve's. Da Vinci's The Last Supper, give's us a clue about this nerve torsion by portraying each disciple representing one of the six muscle's of each eye, with Christ acting as Judge in between, Debir "between the eye's of the Lord". Looking at the knife being held in an overstretched position, is the representaion of 'Jepeardy'. The one holding the knife is Mute, and represent's the Strain needed for a perticular nerve tone to activate the 'BOSS' system in the right hemisphere for Heart Coherence.
This type of torsion technique was also used by the ancient Egyptian's to perform the process of Metempsychosis, resulting in a shift of perspective's in a traumatised state to a save game process of survival. Something Hitler, and the UK Establishment have been experimenting with for year's in the NIMH, and were cought out in 2002 stealing brain's from deseased people who had suffered severe level's of depression, or rather persecution within a system.
The only thing that meake's me sceptical that this is a natural Torc, is the fact that all identity lable's were removed from his clothing, this still leave's the question of why his finger print's, blood type, or dental record's havn't been investigated by Interpol, and why not!
As far as i'm concerned, the Piano Man is an Establishment experiment on the public, whose aim is to represent a Christ like figure in their attempt's to sustain a myth for a failing Church and bank ballence!
The Holy Gail's a very bitter cup to swallow, and according to the prophesy of the Second Coming, 2 Esdras 7:26, and Revelations 22; Uriel's dressed as a bride, representing the flesh with the spirit of a man, in other word's, a woman with more bollock's than any man!!!

According to recent press, radio and tv stories it was a hoax. The perpetrator was from Bavaria and has very limited pianistic skills. He admitted the deception and has been shipped back home.

see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/kent/4172662.stm for more on this story.