Miami Bay Piano
Freelance photographer Karla Murray of New York photographs a grand piano that recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Miami, Wednesday, Jan....
Freelance photographer Karla Murray of New York photographs a grand piano that recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Miami, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Whoever put the piano there placed it at the highest point of the sandbar so that it�s not underwater during high tide. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
Miami-Bay Piano
Nicholas Harrington, 16, poses on a dock in his back yard, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 in Miami. Harrington, who said that he was looking to boost his ar...
Nicholas Harrington, 16, poses on a dock in his back yard, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 in Miami. Harrington, who said that he was looking to boost his art school application, took a bow Thursday for being the one behind the grand piano that mysteriously showed up on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Miami-Bay Piano
In this Jan. 2, 2011 photo provided by Nicholas Harrington, Julian Kolevris-Roots, 18, is shown sitting at a piano on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne B...
In this Jan. 2, 2011 photo provided by Nicholas Harrington, Julian Kolevris-Roots, 18, is shown sitting at a piano on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay. Harrington, a 16-year-old looking to boost his college application, says he is responsible for putting a grand piano on a Biscayne Bay sandbar. (AP Photo/Nicholas Harrington)
A baby grand piano is gone again from a Miami sandbar after a musician rescued the battered instrument for his son.
A towing crew took the piano Thursday. Its appearance on the sandbar in early January was a mystery until 16-year-old Nicholas Harrington stepped forward this week to say he put it there as an art project.
State wildlife officials had served the Harringtons with orders to remove it within 24 hours. But musician Carl Bentulan got there first.
Bentulan told The Miami Herald he plans to eventually put the piano in his living room. He said his 10-year-old son insisted the piano needed a home.
It was unclear if the Harringtons will seek custody. But towing company owner Lynn Mitchell says maritime law gives possession to whoever pays to salvage something abandoned at sea.
