{"id":21841,"date":"2023-01-06T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/06\/were-saving-100-year-old-pianos-from-landfill\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:25:30","slug":"were-saving-100-year-old-pianos-from-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=21841","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We&#8217;re saving 100-year-old pianos from landfill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u201cPianos do kind of take on the character of 100 years of playing, you know?\u201d says Tim Vincent-Smith, co-founder of Pianodrome &#8211; a project that saves old pianos from ending up in landfill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Along with bandmate Matthew Wright, the pair receive donations of pianos from all across Scotland and bring them back to life with a little bit of love and care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">While some pianos can be restored back to their former glory, others past their playing age are given a second life by reusing the materials to create sculptures, furniture and Pianodromes \u2013 amphitheatres built entirely from upcycled pianos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u201cWhen you are in the Pianodrome you really feel sort of held by all of these pianos and all of their histories,\u201d says Matthew Wright.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-64175072?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u201cPianos do kind of take on the character of 100 years of playing, you know?\u201d says Tim Vincent-Smith, co-founder of Pianodrome &#8211; a project that saves old pianos from &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}