02/09/2026
🎹 We have 30 old pianos hiding in Holbeck. And they’re about to get a very unusual second life. 👀🌿♻️
This Saturday, 5 September, we’re opening our doors at Besbrode Piano Shop for the first of a series of wonderfully creative piano dismantling workshops — and we’d love you to come and get stuck in!
We’re delighted to be sponsoring this brilliant project, providing workshop space and donating 30 old pianos to be taken apart, rescued and transformed into something completely new. We look forward once again to be working alongside the fabulously inventive Pianodrome and The Leeds International Piano Competition team.
From each piano the timber, ironwork and other useful bits will be carefully salvaged and eventually transformed into five unique Piano Sheds, with working instruments, for the 2027 Leeds Piano Trail Festival.
But first… we need to take them apart. 🔨🎹
Every piano has a story, so each one will be documented — its age, its wood and even the mysterious little treasures lurking inside.
Coins? 🪙
Bus tickets? 🎟️
A suspiciously old sweet wrapper? 🍬
Who knows what we'll find?
Before each piano begins its transformation, its final swan song will be recorded before the dismantling begins. 🎶
It's recycling. It's archaeology. It's woodworking. It's music.
COME AND JOIN US!
DROP IN OR STAY ALL DAY.
📍 Besbrode Pianos
39 Holbeck Lane, Holbeck, Leeds, LS11 9UL
🗓 Saturday 5 September | 11am–4pm
More workshops:
• Wednesday 9 September | 5–8pm
• Sunday 20 September | 11am–4pm
• Thursday 24 September | 12–3pm
No specialist experience needed. 🔨
Woodworkers, makers, DIY enthusiasts, gardeners, piano lovers, curious beginners and anyone who simply fancies trying something completely different — you're very welcome.
👧 Supervised children are welcome too!
We're incredibly proud to be giving these old instruments another life — and we can't wait to see what they become.
Register your interest here and stay in the loop for upcoming workshops: https://linktr.ee/LeedsPiano