As someone who likes to play the piano myself, I don’t think Peter Kyle’s proposal of a piano on the concourse at Brighton Station is a good idea (The Argus, February 21).
One can just imagine the cacophonous treatment it would be subjected to on a Saturday night, as the drunks, football fans and spaced-out clubbers get their hands, fists and feet on it.
The one he is pictured with at St Pancras Station is clearly already a wreck, with missing keys and ivories ripped off. It probably sounds dreadful.
When our city council left pianos in the streets during the White Night event a couple of years ago, most were vandalised or even stolen.
It would not be fair to a decent instrument to put it in such a vulnerable location – and if it’s not a decent instrument only louts and hooligans would be attracted to it.
This idea looks to me like a publicity stunt by Mr Kyle, who I see styles himself a “Parliamentary candidate” even though there’s no election due just yet.
Graham Chainey, Marine Parade, Brighton
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