Piano - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:12:19 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Piano - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Woman thinks piano in ruined church needs to be played https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/04/23/piano-ruined-church/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:20:24 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=126221 Josh Roe was live for newscasts at Faith Community Wesleyan Church. It is one of the many buildings destroyed by the Easter storms. Tracy Coats saw the piano in the rubble and told Josh that she felt it just needed to be played. Read more

Woman thinks piano in ruined church needs to be played... Read more]]> Josh Roe was live for newscasts at Faith Community Wesleyan Church. It is one of the many buildings destroyed by the Easter storms.

Tracy Coats saw the piano in the rubble and told Josh that she felt it just needed to be played. Read more

Woman thinks piano in ruined church needs to be played]]> 126221 'Cathedral' piano sale a mystery https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/03/cathedral-piano-sale-a-mystery/ Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:30:43 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=28773 A baby grand piano advertised on Trade Me sold for $6000 this week. The seller listed it as "from Christchurch Cathedral". The listing said the seller, called Bridgewater, bought the mahogany piano at a charity auction in 1995. "This piano was originally the only piano in the Christchurch Cathedral up until then," the listing said. Read more

‘Cathedral' piano sale a mystery... Read more]]> A baby grand piano advertised on Trade Me sold for $6000 this week. The seller listed it as "from Christchurch Cathedral".

The listing said the seller, called Bridgewater, bought the mahogany piano at a charity auction in 1995.

"This piano was originally the only piano in the Christchurch Cathedral up until then," the listing said.

However, Anglican musician Lennox Willett and Christ Church Cathedral secretary Chris Oldham do not remember it.

Catholic cathedral music director Don Whelan said the piano pictured on Trade Me "certainly was not" in the cathedral, where he has worked for more than 40 years.

 

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