After rescue, Gaza’s only grand piano makes public debut

25 November 2018, 7:33 pm

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The only grand piano in the Gaza Strip is debuting to the public for the first time in over a decade, after its restoration.

Japanese and local artists played the piano and sang to a rapt audience on Sunday, at a theater nestled in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s building.

The Japanese government donated the piano 20 years ago. But a 2014 Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza destroyed the theater that housed it. The piano survived, but was unplayable and left in the abandoned theater.

A Belgian charity, Music Fund, sent in experts to restore the piano after it was discovered. The four-year project was completed last month.

— AP