Piano (re)inspiration

On a crisp fall day, I visited the piano with Errol Danehy, a staff member at Brown University's Watson Institute. Errol explained to me that when he heard about Piano (de)composition earlier this semester, he was inspired to pick up the piano again. He had taken lessons as a child but hadn't kept up with it as he got older. Recently, though, he has started teaching himself some songs that are helping him refresh his keyboard skills. While these songs were not playable on this outdoor piano, he experimented around and beyond the keyboard, tapping on the strings, the case, and the lid with various sizes of sticks. "It's hard to tell which one is going to make a sound, and which ones are just... stuck," Errol observed while plucking some of the strings in the upper register. As the weather changes and the piano continues to decay, the piano continues to become more and more unpredictable.

Days in place: 608

Weather: partly cloudy, 52°F