Rotary Sponsored Piano on Victoria Ave, Wanganui

Rotary Sponsored Piano on Victoria Ave, Wanganui

Sue Gardner

President Rotary Club of Wanganui North

A call went out in our weekly bulletin for a Piano that could be wheeled out onto Victoria Avenue, Wanganui's Main Street, & played by passersby.

The wife of one of our Rotarians donated her grandmother's 1904 walnut, upright piano.

Local businesses donated their time & services - Dave Hoskin Carriers, Elite Engineering, Morrie Gibbons Signwriters, & Stafford King - piano tuner - to ready the piano for its new life.

The piano has been handed over to MainStreet Wanganui who will house the piano, & also decide when & where it will feature at any given time.

It's first adventure was in a recent "Busk Off" where a team of Rotarians & friends played the piano for 4 hours recently on a Saturday.

Sue Gardner playing the Main Street Piano.