{"id":12062,"date":"2016-09-25T06:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T11:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2016-09-25T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:53:15","slug":"photos-of-the-day-piano-in-the-park-at-watsons-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/25\/photos-of-the-day-piano-in-the-park-at-watsons-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Piano in the Park at Watson’s Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> had heard about Pianos in the Park, but didn’t realize until this week that they had installed a piano right around the corner from us at our favourite place. The Ottawa version of Pianos in the Park (apparently it’s an international movement) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing pianos to local parks. They’ve got them downtown, in Carp, Barrhaven, Riverside South, and about a dozen other location, including one right here in Manotick. This is in the gazebo at AY Jackson park.<\/p>\n

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As soon as Tristan heard about it, he wanted to check it out. He’s been teaching himself to play piano from YouTube videos using Synthesia (not unlike Rock Band or Guitar Hero) on our electronic keyboard, but he doesn’t get a chance to play on a real piano very often.<\/p>\n

Safe to say, he quite enjoyed it!<\/p>\n

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And so did Lucas, though he was more inclined to discordant banging than any actual harmonies.<\/p>\n

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I was intrigued, so I did a little digging to find out more about the project. Founder Nicholas Pope launched Ottawa’s Pianos in the Park in 2014, modeling it on Play Me, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Yours, a project started in Britain that now has more than 1,300 pianos in 45 cities around the world. In an interview<\/a> with the Ottawa Citizen, Pope said all the local pianos will be painted with Ottawa-specific themes, and that they take anywhere from 40 to 80 hours to finish. So the Manotick piano is in place but not yet painted – although I did notice it smells of fresh varnish.<\/p>\n

Amazing, right? I love this so much that I joined the Pianos in the Park group on Facebook, and found out about THIS amazing project being cooked up as a tribute to Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip<\/a>, a traveling piano set to go on tour across Canada this October.<\/p>\n

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Have you been to any of the other pianos in Ottawa parks? I’m thinking it would make a fun adventure to tour them all before they’re packed away until next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had heard about Pianos in the Park, but didn’t realize until this week that they had installed a piano right around the corner from us at our favourite place. The Ottawa version of Pianos in the Park (apparently it’s an international movement) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing pianos to local parks. They’ve … Continue reading “Photos of the day: Piano in the Park at Watson’s Mill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,97,33,75,99,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lucas","category-mothership-photography","category-ottawas-hidden-treasures","category-project-365","category-postcards-from-manotick","category-tristan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}