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00:00 The Toy Piano Gallery is a part of the activity of small instruments,
00:07 a musical group or idea that I have been running in Wrocław for 17 years.
00:13 We have always played music on unusual objects, unusual instruments,
00:19 small instruments, as the name suggests.
00:22 And the Toy Piano, or toy piano, toy piano,
00:26 is a great example of such an unusual instrument,
00:30 because we all know the correctly sounding piano,
00:35 those big, traditional, adult ones.
00:38 However, the sound of these small instruments sounds completely different
00:43 and it is worth getting to know it,
00:46 and using it still introduces certain new qualities to music.
00:50 In 2010, I decided to write a book about the history of these pianos,
00:56 which presents their culture in a very rich way.
01:00 Please note that this is one kind of instrument,
01:04 but it is available in hundreds of variants.
01:07 To prepare this book well,
01:10 I needed to have access to a large number of different copies,
01:14 and in this way I started to create a collection,
01:17 which today has over 300 different toy pianos.
01:21 And because of this, we thought it would be nice to present them in public.
01:26 Hence the idea of creating a toy piano gallery.
01:29 Most of these pianos that reach me,
01:33 unfortunately, do not work, so these instruments need to be repaired.
01:38 In this case, the keys did not move at all in one place,
01:42 and the reason for this was such an object hidden inside.
01:47 Someone just fell under the keys,
01:51 such a 19th-century slipper of some doll, bitten.
01:58 And...
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02:37 We would like it, in addition to offering a permanent exhibition,
02:42 which can be visited and experience the presence of these unusual exhibits,
02:47 we would like to invite all people interested in interesting,
02:53 exploratory music to follow the cultural, artistic offer.
03:00 We would like to organize here camera concerts,
03:03 presentations, installations, performative activities,
03:07 which deal with this unusual, unusual music
03:12 played in a different way on unusual instruments.
03:16 .
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