Ella Wills explores why pianos have become a fixture at railway stations across the UK.
The sound of someone tinkling the ivories has become commonplace at UK railway stations. But who plays them, what is their appeal and how did the trend take hold?
Every Monday and Friday, Denis Robinson, 92, makes the 30-minute trip from his home in Sutton, south London, to St Pancras International station, in the heart of the capital.
His final destination: an upright piano tucked beneath a staircase on the station concourse, opposite the arrivals door where holidaymakers from across the world depart the high-speed Eurostar train.
Denis is one of Britain's amateur railway station pianists. A minor celebrity, following a viral performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow with West End singer Ceili O'Connor in April, he has been delighting commuters with his own arrangements of nostalgic hits for seven years....Keep reading on the BBC
The sound of someone tinkling the ivories has become commonplace at UK railway stations. But who plays them, what is their appeal and how did the trend take hold?
Every Monday and Friday, Denis Robinson, 92, makes the 30-minute trip from his home in Sutton, south London, to St Pancras International station, in the heart of the capital.
His final destination: an upright piano tucked beneath a staircase on the station concourse, opposite the arrivals door where holidaymakers from across the world depart the high-speed Eurostar train.
Denis is one of Britain's amateur railway station pianists. A minor celebrity, following a viral performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow with West End singer Ceili O'Connor in April, he has been delighting commuters with his own arrangements of nostalgic hits for seven years....Keep reading on the BBC