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A removal man who let a £45,000 concert piano slip off the back of his lorry says it's "the worst thing that's ever happened to me".

Brian Haigh made a humiliating public apology to the instrument's owner and told how the experience left him lost for words.

The blunder was captured on camera as the Bosendorfer, the Rolls Royce of Pianos fell 13 feet down a bank.

It was supposed to be delivered - in one piece - to the Two Moors Festival in Devon, reports the Daily Mail.

Brian, who is employed by G & R Removals in Chiswick, said: "I was really disappointed. I haven't got words for it. I've been doing this job a long, long time. It's the worst thing that's ever happened to me.

"I was just gutted, absolutely gobsmacked. I couldn't believe it had gone over. I couldn't talk for five minutes."

Penny Adie, 54, the festival's organiser said: "We had been raising money for over two years to get this piano, it was the most ghastly moment, seeing all one's hopes and dreams being smashed down the stone steps."