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Accordionally

Last week I wrote about two pianos. One cool and prestigious in the confines of a high street bank. The other one battered and bombastic, on the steps outside the art galley. The bank piano represented culture and the one on the steps was an active conduit of culture. The bank piano was austere and […]

Two Pianos

During the Commonwealth Games there was a piano outside Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). It was battered, beat up and jaunty. It was a raggamuffin of piano. A scamp. It would nonchalantly climb a scale and then duck and weave through an arpeggio before falling silent like nothing had happened. This piano may not […]