Composer, Ross Bolleter, specialises in playing ruined pianos. Ross approaches a ruined piano as a found object, not an instrument in chronic need of repair. In 1888, it was estimated that there were 700,000 pianos in Australia, when the population was then only three million. How many came to the colony of Tasmania is anyone’s guess, but they’re out there just waiting to be found…

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