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‘A special bond between music and art’: Bath piano shop turns old parts into palette
From an eagle to Elton John, the Played and Remade project enables artists to ‘make something magical’ from free materials
The task of loading once-loved but now unwanted pianos into a van and carting them off to the recycling centre is a disheartening and melancholy one. So a music shop in Bath that scraps as many as 300 redundant and unfixable pianos a year has launched a project to repurpose the thousands of parts that make up each instrument into pieces of art. Fiona Campbell, who has produced a sculpture of a bird’s nest using old strings and keys, said: “The project appealed to me as my work is about reusing waste materials, making do.
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