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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2025-05-15 08:07 am

The Day The Music Died

The piano had been sitting at the Meeting House unplayed and untuned for decades. David who was around twenty years ago said it was a bone of contention even then. We discussed it, we deliberated, but no no-one actually did anything because such is the Quaker way. "It's so heavy," we complained. We mentioned it to our mate Damian and he said, "I'll get it out for you." And he did. It took him all of ten minutes,

One has to be a little sad. It was a good piano. Legend says it was once played by Donald Swan....