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The site of a battered pump organ left damaged and abandoned on Fallowfield Road broke Sandy Sharkey’s heart.
“It’s just so beautiful,” said Sharkey, an Ottawa radio personality and photographer who saw the organ on Tuesday and has gone back four more times to take pictures.
“To think of all the generations that must have sat around it while Dad played. It’s very sad.”
The abandoned instrument also upset Nicholas Pope, the man behind Ottawa’s Pianos in the Park project.
“It’s a travesty, really,” said Pope. “If we couldn’t refurbish it, then certainly we could have salvaged it for parts.”
The organ, made by the Karn Piano Co. Ltd, of Woodstock, Ont., was left on the side of Fallowfield between Woodroffe Avenue and Merivale Road. It’s now damaged beyond repair, Pope said.
Pianos in the Park installed its first public piano on Sparks Street in September. That one is now in storage for the winter, but a second piano at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park is proving popular with visitors.
Pope scouts for used instruments on kijiji and has a small budget to repair and tune them. Artist Jody Deguire decorates them for public display: The Sparks Street piano has a tulip theme.
“We had lineups for people wanting to play it, especially during something like Ribfest.”
It takes between 40 to 80 hours to refurbish and decorate a piano, he said. The project was inspired by Play Me, I’m Yours, a project by British artist Luke Jerram that has put more than 1,300 pianos in 45 cities around the world.
Piano in the Park plans to have six instruments in place for next summer and 24 by the summer of 2017 for Canada’s 150th birthday celebration.
The abandoned Karn organ would have certainly been of interest, he said.
Anyone with a suitable piano can contact Pope at pianosinthepark@gmail.com. The project has only limited funds so can only take a few pianos a year. Anyone who can pay to have the piano moved will be acknowledged a donor when their instrument is eventually placed.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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“It’s just so beautiful,” said Sharkey, an Ottawa radio personality and photographer who saw the organ on Tuesday and has gone back four more times to take pictures.
“To think of all the generations that must have sat around it while Dad played. It’s very sad.”
The abandoned instrument also upset Nicholas Pope, the man behind Ottawa’s Pianos in the Park project.
“It’s a travesty, really,” said Pope. “If we couldn’t refurbish it, then certainly we could have salvaged it for parts.”
The organ, made by the Karn Piano Co. Ltd, of Woodstock, Ont., was left on the side of Fallowfield between Woodroffe Avenue and Merivale Road. It’s now damaged beyond repair, Pope said.
Pianos in the Park installed its first public piano on Sparks Street in September. That one is now in storage for the winter, but a second piano at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park is proving popular with visitors.
Pope scouts for used instruments on kijiji and has a small budget to repair and tune them. Artist Jody Deguire decorates them for public display: The Sparks Street piano has a tulip theme.
“We had lineups for people wanting to play it, especially during something like Ribfest.”
It takes between 40 to 80 hours to refurbish and decorate a piano, he said. The project was inspired by Play Me, I’m Yours, a project by British artist Luke Jerram that has put more than 1,300 pianos in 45 cities around the world.
Piano in the Park plans to have six instruments in place for next summer and 24 by the summer of 2017 for Canada’s 150th birthday celebration.
The abandoned Karn organ would have certainly been of interest, he said.
Anyone with a suitable piano can contact Pope at pianosinthepark@gmail.com. The project has only limited funds so can only take a few pianos a year. Anyone who can pay to have the piano moved will be acknowledged a donor when their instrument is eventually placed.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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