April 14th - Day 361

Almost fell at the last today. The school holiday agenda meant there was little time to see any music. Nevertheless Claire, Rowan, Oliver and I still had an hour and a half this afternoon to stroll along the South Bank from London Bridge and surely clock a busker somewhere. Not so. There wasn't one. We did pass Boris Johnson, but he wasn't standing under a bridge playing an accordian, so it didn't really count. I would have had to rename the project "364 Days of Live Music and One Day of Boris Johnson".

I was saved by this man...

He was tuning the piano, interspersing repeated individual notes with the occasional burst of a tune. I went around the other side of the building, an art gallery, to go in and find out more. I got inside, but was stopped by someone else before I could reach the piano-tuner. He told me the gallery was actually closed. The piano was being tuned in readiness for this evening's private view, before opening to the public tomorrow (The Bicha Gallery spring show - guest artist Michael Kenny). I should have found out whether the tuner was also the pianist.

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