Jon Kelly is the owner of a Bath-based Piano Shop that’s been successfully trading in the music business for forty years.
While every new piano that’s sold is good news for business, he’s become acutely aware of the 150-300 unwanted and unfixable pianos from the area that he and his team are asked to scrap each year.
Jon thinks this is not only a disservice to the time and skills involved in making a piano but also a needless waste of the many materials used in the manufacture of each instrument.
With this in mind, he has come up with a novel solution. An idea he’s called ‘Played and Remade’ which involves offering artists their free pick of this waste resources for creative reuse, exhibition and sale via his shop on the London Road.
A ‘taster showcase’ exhibition of their work will officially start on May 1st and the artists involved – who have come up with some amazing new art forms from the salvaged piano material – will have a dedicated area of the business website via thepianoshopbath.co.uk
I went along for a chat with Jon.
