The Piano in the Tree

On 28th December 1916 a flood destroyed the original township of Clermont and left in its aftermath a reminder of how high the water reached in the shape of a piano stuck 32 feet high up a tree. At the entrance to Clermont there is now a fake piano in a tree, with an original photograph of the actual piano/tree next to it. The one thing I don’t understand is that they went to all this trouble and then didn’t put the piano 32 feet high when they replicated it – which surely defeats the object of illustrating how high the water got?!! Anyway, here it is, (alas, not as high as the original) still an unusual sight!