A website devoted to studies in instrumental (especially piano ruin)
WARPS
World Association for Ruined Piano Studies
Formed
in 1991 by Stephen Scott (of Bowed Piano celebrity, and professor of music
at Colorado Collage) and Ross Bolleter. The organisation has world-wide membership,
has never held an AGM, and tends to move into action only from whim or from
a rush of blood. WARPS has devoted energy to giving old pianos a good home,
which can certainly mean adequate sunshine and rain, as in.......
WARPS
PIANO PATHOLOGY
Inactive, neglected, abandoned,
weathered, decaying, ruined, devastated, dismembered, decomposed .......
A
piano is said to be ruined (rather than neglected or devastated) when it has
been abandoned to all weathers, say on a sheep station or tennis court, with
the result that few or none of its notes sound like that of an even-tempered
uptight piano.
A Ruined Piano has its frame and bodywork more or less intact (even though
the soundboard is cracked wide open, with the blue sky shining through) so
that it can be played in the ordinary way.
By contrast a Devastated Piano is usually played in a crouched or lying position.
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