Creating new futures for pianos. Old pianos remade into new instruments

This project is a collaboration between Pianos Recycled, local artisans and furniture and design students from Holmesglen TAFE. We have developed a lap steel guitar, thumb piano, and Cajon drums prototypes, all created from resources recovered from unwanted pianos.

We invite everyone with an interest in creativity, climate action, and sustainability to come along and look, feel and play these instruments, plus share ideas for speeding up progress towards circularity through music (and imagination).

There will be instrument demonstrations, some impromptu jamming and we can discuss the importance of finding new value from unwanted resources.

We’ll also be sharing the results of Pianos Recycled’s case study showing that resource recovery, re-use, redesign and repurposing has the potential to create 56x more jobs than recycling and landfill while identifying key challenges in getting there (and to circularity).

Pianos Recycled is a circular economy social enterprise with a mission to divert unwanted pianos from landfill and create new futures for them. Find our project here: https://www.fbideas.org/piano-transformation-challenge or explore our Piano Transformations Catalogue through our website http://www.pianosrecycled.eco