Tim Vincent-Smith

Creator of the Pianodrome

I am a musician, artist and a dad. I first started building from found materials twenty years ago when I lived in Shakespeare and Co. bookshop in Paris. The eccentric owner George would send me to local skips to collect planks he had seen and I would make shelves, benches and beds for the ‘tumbleweeds’ who stayed in the shop in exchange for a bed there myself. In 2004 with a group of folk I met in Paris I started a bookshop on Santorini Island in Greece; Atlantis Books. All of the shelves and interior of the shop - which still survives atop the volcanic cliff in the town of Oia - were made from drift or giftwood and I am proud to say that it has more than once made it into the list of top ten most beautiful bookshops in the world. 

For me Pianodrome is a culmination of a lifetime of building from found materials, building creative communities and playing music. I love it and I am excited to see what more we can make out of pianos in our new Studio Pianodrome.