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Piano Harbour

colour photograph of a street scene with the back and side of a piano in the foreground on a tiled sidewalk. On the side of the piano is a painting of Victoria Hall with a blue sky and on the back is a sunny harbour scene with a variety of ducks and swans in the foreground and the harbour entrance with lighthouse in the background. In front of the piano is a piano bench, at the near edge of the street is a large container of red flowers and across the street is a person taking a photograph.

Cobourg Street Piano, Amber Quinn, 2015

Credit: Stanley Isherwood

In the summer of 2014, the Town of Cobourg installed several painted pianos in the streets for budding musicians to play. For example, the artist, Katriona Dean, painted one with the image of a fox. That piano became internationally famous when the video of a local musician, Michael McNamara, playing the instrument and singing, went viral.

The piano shown in this photo was installed outside Victoria Hall in 2015. It was painted by artist Amber Quinn.