ABC’s Pop-Up Pianos are bringing the gift of music to communities around Australia

Rescue the front popular pianos is not about protecting them from the end for Mike Hendry. It’s about giving them a whole new life.

Something that ABC can do more than one way as part of the pop-up pianos campaign.

Mr. Hendry is a partner of a piano tuner and Pianos Recycled.

Hendry, “We get 80 questions per month from people who want to get rid of the pianos,” he says.

“We separate what we can do and the others and do all kinds of things, paintings, bedside tables, storage boxes [and] tables. “

A customer asked for a coffin from his old pianos, something that Mr. Hendry says he was a difficult desire to beat.

To celebrate the ABC IView series, the Piano, ABC and Piano Plus offers 19 pre -popular piano donated to communities throughout the country and donated by organizations such as recycled and ordinary people.

Music gift to the south west of Victoria

It is a pre -popular piano in his new home, along the common area of ​​the East Hub Geelong Community Center in the southwest of Victoria.

Joanne Brown, Hub’s executive officer, nominated the center for ABC Pop-up Pianos Town.

The center is home to community activities, including disability day services, elderly care tables and acting classes and African drum workshops.

Ms. Brown said that the center was a community piano that was unfortunately dispersed during the height of the pandema due to restrictions on meetings, along with community choirs.

During this time, the piano was taken from his centers and without one.

“This is an opportunity [the choir] They can be a piano here to come back, “says Mrs. Brown.

Ms. Brown says that her team has returned to the community and invites the choir members to return and use the area because they can access a piano.

But not just the pleasure of old choir members. Ms. Brown says this piano is a sign of hope for new generation advertising items.

“Another wonderful part of being a piano here is that young pianists come to the piano, use the area, and make theirs,” he says.

Play along the coast

Along the Great Ocean road in Warrnambool by the sea, another community gathered around to get their talented keys.

The Lighthouse Theater is among the towns in Australia, which is preparing to meet ABC Pop-Up Pianos.

Meg Deyell, a venue service manager, hosts many large showers such as theater ballet and Shakespeare, while the missing thing is community music.

“It is really important that a community has these focal points, the opportunity to share these experiences together.”

Voice Collective, a choir of 200 and people of every talent and age, arrived at Warrnambool last month, Voce Collective, who made the piano for the first time.

“Some of them have mental obstacles in wheelchairs, others like to be a part of the group and joined.”

Adjusting the hospital with music therapy

In the north in Townsville, Dr. Nisan Miu said that music plays a major role not only for him but also for his community.

“I’ve been playing piano since I was a child. Dr Miu says.

The surgeon in Breastfeeding Queensland says that this thought is something that he shares with the local community.

The Northeast Queensland Town was hardly shot with floods that left houses in the early hours of the year and destroyed cars.

There were more than 200 millimeter rain records on the parts of North Queensland, where Dr Miu remembered it was a difficult time for the town.

This was the motivation behind the nomination of the local hospital to get ABC Pop-up piano.

“[It’s] In order to be a pleasant distraction of the community, especially when someone comes to a hospital, because they do not come to a purposeless hospital… And the aim is not necessarily the most positive thing, ”he says.

Dr Miu is among the local musicians who will perform at the piano community concert of Townsville University Hospital.

Pop-up Piano Community Concerts For the next few months, it is in the towns that win through Australia.

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