Although it sounds like he just got them all drunk ...

An interview with the author of the forthcoming children's book Beethoven's Five Legless Pianos. Which, despite all odds, now intrigues me, just based on this bit:

It is certainly neither “creative nonfiction” or “historical fiction.” It is exactly what it claims to be—a theory on how Beethoven might have moved his five legless pianos in and out of 39 different apartments, and on why he might have felt compelled to move so often, and on what these apartments might have been like, and on what works he might have composed while in the various apartments.