Mysterieuze 'piano man' (deel II)

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Op maandag 8 augustus 2005 17:29 schreef Meaghan het volgende:
Het blijft iig een uiterst vreemd verhaal, iemand moet toch familie en vrienden hebben die hem missen en naar hem op zoek zijn en hem herkennen van de diverse oproepen in de media? Hij heeft toch op z'n minst een vader en moeder zou je denken. Ik vind het maar een treurig verhaal, zo alleen op de wereld en niemand die je ook maar schijnt te missen

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Op maandag 8 augustus 2005 18:52 schreef Aryan_S het volgende:
De grote vraag is natuurlijk of hij het faked of dat het echt is. Je kan toch niet zomaar opeens je geheugen kwijt zijn, daarvoor zou iets moeten gebeuren.

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'Piano Man' breaks silence and heads home
By Simon Freeman, Times Online

Piano Man, the mute and nameless stranger who mystified social workers for more than four months, has suddenly identified himself and left hospital.

The shy, anxious individual was picked up by police on a beach in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in the early hours of April 7, wearing a dripping wet suit and tie. His only means of communication appeared to be through his musical virtuosity.

The puzzle captured the public imagination and the image of the tall, blonde and dishevelled-looking man in the ill-fitting dinner suit was flashed around the world.

Leads identified the 6ft eccentric as everything from a French busker to a Czech concert pianist. Psychiatrists believed he was suffering either from post-traumatic stress disorder or a form of autism.

Today, however, hospital workers who had been caring for Piano Man, announced that he had been discharged after making a dramatic improvement in his condition.

For the millions who have been touched by the man's plight, his story has a somewhat unsatisfactory conclusion. Medical and social care agencies are bound by strict confidentiality laws, which mean that his identity can not be made public. It is unclear whether the Piano Man was genuinely ill - or playing a uniquely peculiar prank.

The Mirror reported today that he told nursing staff he was German, had been working in Paris, but caught a Eurostar to England after losing his job. The newspaper says that he returned to Germany, where he has two sisters and his father owns a farm.

An insider at the Little Brook Hospital in Dartford, Kent, told the newspaper that the man had been attempting to commit suicide when he was picked up by police. He is said to have once worked with psychiatric patients and mimicked their characteristics to dupe doctors that he was ill.

"A nurse went into his room last Friday and said ‘Are you going to speak to us today?’ He simply answered ‘Yes, I think I will.’

"We were stunned. He has been with us for months and we have got nowhere with him. We thought he was going to be with us for ever," the insider said.

And, in a final revelation which will forever shatter the enigma, the source told the paper that he was in fact "rubbish" at the piano.

When he was first discovered, the man refused to speak but when presented with a pen and paper, sketched a detailed picture of a grand piano. He was subsequently led to a piano in the hospital's chapel where his four-hour performance was described by Michael Camp, his social worker, as "really amazing".

Now it is suggested that he merely tapped at one key repeatedly. The source told The Mirror: "He claims he was found by police as he was trying to commit suicide. He was obviously in a distressed state and didn't talk to police. Then it just went on from there.

"He had us all fooled though," the insider added.

In a short statement, the West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust said: "The patient dubbed 'Piano Man' is no longer in our care. He has been discharged following a marked improvement in his condition.

"The rules regarding patient confidentiality mean that the Trust is unable to make any further comment on this story. This includes any comment on his condition, current location or the circumstances in which he left the Trust's care.

"The Trust would like to express its thanks to the many agencies that worked on this case including the National Missing Persons' Helpline, the police and the local health economy."

The Trust refused to comment on suggestions that it was considering making a claim for compensation from the man for the tens of thousands of pounds spent on his treatment.

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Op maandag 22 augustus 2005 12:29 schreef Zanderrr het volgende:
And, in a final revelation which will forever shatter the enigma, the source told the paper that he was in fact "rubbish" at the piano.

When he was first discovered, the man refused to speak but when presented with a pen and paper, sketched a detailed picture of a grand piano. He was subsequently led to a piano in the hospital's chapel where his four-hour performance was described by Michael Camp, his social worker, as "really amazing".

Now it is suggested that he merely tapped at one key repeatedly.

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"A nurse went into his room last Friday and said ‘Are you going to speak to us today?’ He simply answered ‘Yes, I think I will.’

And, in a final revelation which will forever shatter the enigma, the source told the paper that he was in fact "rubbish" at the piano.

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Op maandag 22 augustus 2005 17:17 schreef Biancavia het volgende:
Die Michael Camp heeft dat vier uur lang *plink* *plink* *plink* *plink* *plink* blijkbaar als 'amazing' omschreven, wat door de media opgevat werd alsof hij ontzettend amazing goed kon spelen denk ik.

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Op maandag 22 augustus 2005 18:18 schreef Lupa_Solitaria het volgende:
Ik ben heel erg teleurgesteld.

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Op maandag 22 augustus 2005 18:51 schreef milagro het volgende:
niet nodig

we hebben immers Luierman nog

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He was subsequently led to a piano in the hospital's chapel where his four-hour performance was described by Michael Camp, his social worker, as "really amazing".

Now it is suggested that he merely tapped at one key repeatedly.