Our lovely Bechstein piano (much admired by the superb international soloists who performed in our March 2018 concert) is well into its second century and was showing its age.  It needed a major overhaul, which put it out of action from March until June 2018.  The cost of the overhaul was £4,670;the money for the repairs was paid back from the donations raised by successive Sunday concerts, with half the proceeds still going to the church.  We have now paid off the cost! - half the money raised from future concerts will go to the church and half to piano and concert expenses, such as piano and we hope eventually to offer the performers some expenses.

The repairs were carried out by Kevin Brice of Brooklands Pianos; the restringing and other work he performed improved the tone of the lower registers, and gave us a piano that we can rely on for many more years.  Kevin sent us a fascinating blog of his repair work, which can be accessed from the buttons above.

The initial cost of the piano was paid off at the beginning of 2018; the chart below shows our progress towards raising money for the refurbishment costs.  We had completely paid off the cost early in 2020 - just before lockdown!

Target: £4,670

£4,670  March 2020