South River now has a decomposing piano for all to play

When arriving at New Adventures in Sound Art in South River, you see a piano outdoors, that's there for everyone to play.

It's decomposing and can't be tuned to a perfect pitch, but that doesn't mean it can't be played.

"It looks different then it once did,” said Nadene Theriault Copeland, the executive director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA).

“It plays different every day, the weather makes, the keys freeze down and don't work at all, sometimes the action is quite good, if it warms up and everything loosens up again, you get a lot of percussion sounds in it that you didn't get before."

Copeland told CTV News having an outdoor decomposing piano is something she's had on her radar for a while.

"There's a world community that follows and researches decomposed pianos. it's called world pianos," she said.

"I decided to follow in a long line of ruined pianos that that other people have done in other countries and around Canada just put it outside and let one decompose."

Copeland said she's hoping to get at least two years out of the decomposing piano and said as long as there's interest in playing it, then it will be outside at NAISA.