Street Pianos
As I was walking over to get the car last night, I noticed a couple people setting up a piano in the middle of Chippendale’s Peace Park. “What’s all this about?” I asked. They said it was part of the Festival, and that there were 20 “street pianos” being installed all over the city. I wondered aloud what they would do if it rained. Six hours later I found out, as I was returning the car to Myrtle Street in the aftermath of a loud thunderstorm. As I walked back to the house, I could hear music playing. When I got close I could see that some kind soul had thrown a large tarp over the piano, and had then crawled underneath to play a little night music. “Now there’s something you don’t see every day…” (There’s a photo on the site of the Chippo piano. They’ve since moved it onto the grass beneath a tree.)

Update: It sounds like they’re going to lock it at night to keep drunks from pounding on it at 2am. Good call.