The piano-shaped object

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2012)

As a piano historian, I find it amusing that in a film with its plot centred around a Broadwood square piano, nobody bothered to take a moment to check what one should look like. There are plenty of them on the net, but instead, we have this odd-looking object on the beach that is presumably based on trying to justify the other object used inside the house. That, in turn, seems to be a grand piano, with the ends of the keyboard filled in by peculiar wooden blocks, and the tail end hidden through a partition. Where is the historical accuracy, the authenticity that we come to expect in a costume drama like this? If they made equivalent mistakes with costumes, or allowed a plane to fly over the set, people would say it was unacceptable. Does anyone have any answers for me?