Play Me, I'm Yours


	Play Me, I'm Yours
JohnWaterman
6-24-2009 2:14 PM
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Art project puts pianos on street
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6-24-2009 9:25 PM
disenchantedcitizen
What a truly marvelous idea!
6-27-2009 12:31 PM
tanyamm
That really is a fantastically marvelous idea!
6-27-2009 1:08 PM
Satchamo
Only one question, in rainy England, how do they keep the piano from getting the soundboard waterlogged? or for that matter, any of the other locations he's put pianos. I'd think over time, they would begin to sound pretty ugly.
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