The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163046   Message #3885791
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
30-Oct-17 - 06:04 PM
Thread Name: Piano Dumped on the Beach
Subject: RE: Piano Dumped on the Beach
Robomatic's tale gave me a big smile, Bee-dubya-ell had me Laughing Out Loud!

Decades ago my brother & a workmate borrowed one of the firm's trucks & moved my stuff from one apartment to another. The sign on the truck (Piano removals) attracted the attention of one of my new neighbours who hired them (paid them money, not beer like I was giving them!) to move his piano. Safely, of course, they were professional furniture removalists.

sandra

Ebony and ivory: a field of ruined symphonies Just outside the tiny town of York (Australia) sits a piano graveyard, where the majestic instruments are taken to die.
It began as an art installation, and has become a tip-of-the-hat to Buddhist ideology.
The project began with composer and musician Ross Bolleter, who works solely with ruined pianos; instruments that are anywhere between the first and final stages of decay.
Bolleter ran an art installation in Perth that allowed the public to experiment with 16 ruined pianos, and at the end, was left with nowhere to keep them.
A call from a mutual friend to the owners of Wambyn Olive Grove in Western Australia resulted in a home for the instruments on a property just outside of York, a town about 100km out of Perth.
From that point onwards, Penny and Kim haven't looked back, accepting pianos from those who can't bear to dump their beloved instruments on the rubbish tip.
Since the early 2000s, the couple have collected over 35 pianos, placing them at random spots around their property, allowing the pianos to live out the rest of their days in the middle of the bush. (Read on)