A group of instrument movers’ efforts to carry a Canadian virtuoso pianist’s $194,000 piano out of a recording studio in Berlin ended in a grand fail.

Angela Hewitt, one of the world’s leading classical pianists who recorded Beethoven’s piano variations in the studio last month, revealed the calamity in a heartbreaking Facebook post.

“I feel ready now to share a very sad piece of news. It happened ten days ago, and has been such a shock to me that I didn’t immediately want to share it with the world,” she wrote Sunday.

“The piano movers came into the control room (where I was finishing up with my producer) to say they had dropped my precious Fazioli concert grand piano,” she said.

Hewitt said “the iron frame is broken, as well as much else in the structure and action (not to mention the lid and other parts of the case).

“It makes no sense, financially or artistically, to rebuild this piano from scratch. It’s kaputt. The movers of course were mortified. In 35 years of doing their job, this had never happened before. At least nobody was hurt,” she continued.

“I adored this piano. It was my best friend, best companion. I loved how it felt when I was recording–giving me the possibility to do anything I wanted,” she said, adding that it also was the only F278 Fazioli in the world to have four pedals.

The handmade 1,300-pound instrument was inspected by the firm’s Italian founder, Paolo Fazioli, who declared it “unsalvageable,” Hewitt wrote, adding that she had used it for almost all her recordings since 2003.

She told CNN she would not comment further “while the insurance saga is still in motion.” A spokeswoman for Fazioli Pianos also would not comment, citing a “strict internal rule” about protecting clients’ privacy.

Hewitt said she will choose a new Fazioli in the next few months.

“I hope my piano will be happy in piano heaven,” she wrote.