Instrument of Change

Street Piano Film

The Grenfell Piano

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We delivered a street piano on September 13th for public to play in the Grenfell Community art space Westway, London. The piano brings music to a neighbourhood in grief, after the tower block fire tragedy. Piano donated by John Reid Pianos and tuned by Roy Martin so it totally sings now. Beautiful community healing space created by amazing volunteers who have transformed the walkway under Westway over the past 3 months into a warm and welcoming community memorial space for all.

Letter from Marion who volunteers as her family live there:-

“The piano is being constantly played, by  a hugely diverse array of people, all with that same look of absolute joy & happiness!
Tonight, after the silent vigil, the lovely young Moroccan & I played together, wow, so emotional & beautiful. My granddaughter got to play her duet with me and then all the kids wanted to learn it, somehow, we got it going really well, with loads of them! So much fun for those children who’ve been surrounded by sadness! One of the mum’s plucked up courage to play her funky couple of chords, someone started a chorus, others joined in, all moving, some dancing, singing, laughing, lost in that magic moment of spontaneous music, some of these people I’ve not seen even smile in the last three months.”

 

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Where could we put more public pianos? Take a peek at Glasgow.

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Alan Kenny with Tom Binns. Tom is the piano whisperer – he is single handedly and mostly voluntarily filling Glasgow city with pianos. “He always makes sure each one has a stool – a chair won’t do!” said Alan and he should know he has played them all. The pianos are indoors available for public use and in venues from concert halls to social care centers and art galleries. An inspiration to cities across the world!

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Upstairs in Glasgows main concert hall – one day could there be one in the Barbican, the South Bank or even Carnegie Hall?

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Here the food is free and the piano is free. In an old peoples centre that is used by refugees for delicious lunches made with home grown produce – good vibes. Live music in lunch centers is the way they do it in Glasgow.

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Flourish is a social care centre – the users painted the piano – “it was a great atmosphere ” said Tom. “We were all surprised by who could play the piano when it arrived – we would never have guessed the hidden talent” the manager said.

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The psychiatric hospital has one too. “It makes the place feel homely and blend in with rest of city – something enjoyable and fun on the hospital premises makes a massive difference,” said member of staff. One resident comes down daily to play and the visitors and staff enjoy – relaxation in the air.

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All public pianos need a tuner who ‘gets’ public pianos and Alasdair Russell is Glasgows man. Regularly tuning them with care and generosity the pianos are in great shape. Here he is tuning the piano at a local stables on outskirts of city.

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And the swimming pool that was nearly closed down until the community took it over, after they turned it into an arts centre they installed a baby grand and they now have funding to completely refurbish – amazing what happens when you have a piano in your midst!

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Going uptown – to the beautiful Leiper art gallery – a free piano for public use – amazing – congratulations Ewan – for breaking the mould – elegance and expression can go together! He says “art generates conversation and music generates conversation – makes sense to have them together.”

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Instrument of Change Official Trailer

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SHORT FILM FREE SCREENING

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Invitation to Free Screening of the Film!

At the Station Square in Herne Hill

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The People’s Piano

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Here is the Film!!! – the culmination of 6 months work, we got to know some amazing people – Enjoy!

 

There is an extended (30min) version in the pipeline, please get in contact if you have any ideas on how this could get funded.

mnifiann@gmail.com or rochestercam@gmail.com
Thank You.

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Joel from Leeds visits Herne Hill

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Joel from Leeds stopped by to play some jazz

Joel goes on to tell us how he was intrigued to see the piano here

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Chris Stead tells us how people react to live music on a street piano.

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We won an award in Los Angeles!

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Everyone said Los Angeles is a city for cars not pedestrians. So we got lucky because screening at the New Urbanism Film Festival we got to see another side of LA altogether.

A great bunch of people, all focused on how to make cities more about people and less about cars!

#HumanStreets in other words. Perfect for the street piano film.

There were films with communities deciding to control their neighbourhood traffic successfully using flower pots, sculptures and even picnic areas .

Also films about homelessness, – a massive problem in L A with 58.000 people currently homeless.

There were many many films about bicycles including two winners from Kampala and Hanoi – delightful!

FRIED DUMPLINGS & BICYCLES – Brenda Mattick

CYCOLOGIC – Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson, Elsa Lövdin

There was some brilliant live comedy about random conversations on buses that totally inspired me to only use the buses to get around. I met a man originally form Stamford Hill who wanted to talk about why he thought Prince Charles should not become king. Random definately. He says he still missed London after 30 years.

On opening night Josh Paget the festival director and his team pushed an old piano down La Brea Boulevard and plonked it outside the theatre for the festival.

It created a lot of cosy street life in the sprawling urban landscape of West Hollywood. That is what pianos do best, spread the magic!

Glasgow Scottish Mental Health Festival

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The brilliant films all with themes like bereavement, suicide and anxiety were much more inspiring and uplifting that might be imagined!

Hats off to Scotland for putting on such a worthwhile festival. Shining a beacon of light in the Age of Austerity. Public services can survive. We got to see some great films.

Hum Nathan Fagan Ireland  was screened in our category Music Matters exploring how music can benefit mental health, a brilliant film.

Summer of 1993 Dir Carla Simon Spain  and Waterfall Tom Lock Griffiths UK both wonderful films and worth looking out for!

And Tom Binns of Glasgow Piano City together with Richard Warren director of the festival arranged to locate a piano in the foyer of Glasgow Contemporary arts festival for the day.

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World Premiere South Korea August 11th 2017

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World premiere and our first festival selection we did not predict. It was South Korea! The amazing Film and Music Festival in Jecheon JIMFF. It was such a great experience taking the street piano documentary there. The film very well received – screened with Korean subtitles and great questions at the Q and A,  a brilliant translator was there with us. The hospitality was supreme. They support the arts in an inspiring way.  The festival was set in a beautiful lakeside location. We went to spend a few days in Seoul on way home, – it was filled with wonderful places and wonderful food! Would recommend a visit! It was all a wonderful reminder that music is without doubt a universal language.

Whatever happened to the old Herne Hill Piano?

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Well it was homeless on October 1st. After the Piano Day Event it was wheeled past the shiny new one that had taken over its place and was locked away in storage at Herne Hill Station, safe but lonely.

 

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It was then rescued for the third time in its history.

This time by Simon Nash who wheeled it (2 miles!) to his communal offices at Green Oil Ltd Brixton.

Attached is a picture of it in it’s new home, the Old Granary on Coldharbour Lane, home of Green Oil UK Ltd.
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Below an extract from his letter to Herne Hill Forum.
Thank you so much for the piano. 
It’s in an atrium with great acoustics, it gives it an ‘Ocean’ affect (you might have seen this affect on a Nord Stage 2!), it’s a concrete stairwell kind of thing.
It’s amazing what you’ve done, I actually met my piano teacher at that piano. Many fond memories!
 
Anyway, keep up the good work, and thankyou for making the world more beautiful.
 
I built a piano trolley for it from some old flight case wheels (I found a broken flight case some time ago), an old door and pieces of ply wood, largely reclaimed from local fly tipping!
 
The trolley worked so well, the piano seems to have largely stayed in tune the journey here! The train staff helped me get it onto the trolley, and I walked it back here on the road, about two miles! A decorator who’d just got off the train helped me along the road some of the way, and an artist coming out of the building helped with the last bit. I used a sheet of metal from an old water tank to get the piano over bumps, it worked well.
 
And now it will bring joy to lots of people, including myself.
 
My friend John runs a recording studio and we’re going to tune it together some time – he thinks a few notes are out of tune. We might even fix a couple of broken keys.
 
Anyway, attached is a pic for you. Do visit any time. It’s currently still on the trolley so you can play standing up, but I’ll build a bench some time.
 
God bless and keep making the world more colourful.
 
Kind regards,
Simon Nash
Director
Green Oil UK Ltd