Captured in the Horton Arts Centre, once the Horton Chapel, expensively and tastefully repurposed. Even if it has proved convenient to put the café counter more or less where the altar table would once have been, under the east window.
Or, if we are being pedantic, the northeast window. Presumably it was not convenient, for some reason now lost, to orientate the chapel properly east-west. Although, thinking with my fingers, directors of these hospitals were often very keen on exotic trees, so maybe they were also into great circles? It being a matter of some theological dispute whether pointing east along a line of latitude or pointing to Jerusalem (or Mecca a few miles down the coast) along a great circle was more worthy. A matter which I have noticed before and which I will attempt to trace in due course.
A repurposing which included chopping the chapel in half, making two modest spaces rather than one rather big one. I was a bit sorry about this at the time, but I suppose they were right. The big space had reached its sell-by date.
Back with the piano, a modest Yamaha grand, in the cafe half of the building rather than the performance half, which was shut on this occasion. I suppose I could have cooked up some story and asked a trusty to let me in, but I decided against. But if I had, would I have found a grander piano? It seems a bit of a bother to have to wheel this one through when needed, which looking at the programme might have been quite often.
PS: maybe a celebration for piano No.100?
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/01/piano-98.html.
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