Snow-laden roof caves-in at the music shop where the $500,000 piano is housed.

A unique, rhinestone-encrusted piano, once owned by the flamboyant pianist and entertainer Liberace narrowly avoided destruction when the roof of the music shop where the piano is housed in Rockland, Massachusetts collapsed on Monday.

The roof of the Piano Mill caved in after 29 inches of snowfall in the east coast state put excessive strain on the building causing a roughly 100-foot-by-100-foot section of the pitched roof to buckle and fall into the showroom.

Fortunately the instrument, which is covered in 88,888 rhinestones and has been appraised for $500,000 was located in another area of the building, although around a dozen other pianos were severely damaged. No one was inside the building at the time of the collapse. The owners of the store faced a tense wait after the cave-in as structural engineers had to assess the integrity of the building before allowing access to confirm the valuable instrument was undamaged.

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