I bought my first broken Piano (a B. Squire) back in 2017 for £20 with the encouragement/demand from my ex-girlfriend “You could fix it”. And so I set out learning how; meticulously replacing all of the bridle straps to get the action to align correctly and finding a 1942 half penny under the keys. The relationship fell apart before I moved from Aberdeen to Edinburgh in 2018 to study music, but my love for Pianos thankfully did not! I threw myself at a lot of things in my early months in Edinburgh but hearing the sentence “Oh, have you heard of Pianodrome? They made a whole venue out of pianos!” intrigued me the most. Eventually serendipity brought me to them at a Gallery open day in Custom house at Leith shore where Leon & Tim had an office. This began my volunteering for them in 2019, pulling apart a Mic’d up piano at the Pitt street Market (“Bang, ping, twang…”) and volunteering as often as possible the 2019 fringe. After that, my involvement was scattered due to University and Covid but I fell more into step again with Pianodrome at the 2022 fringe where we haunted the Old Royal High School and I organised a hide and seek in that building after the fringe! In 2024 I played a couple of shows at Pianodrome as my new project “lifegarden” - the combination of playing there more often, covering some paid opportunities and my crisis of trying to avoid hospitality jobs lead me to jumping at the chance to start running the Saturday afternoon shows and other events at Pianodrome. I’m forever grateful to have found this chaotic but ultimately loving and nourishing community at Pianodrome and I hope my input is and/or continues to be beneficial.