THE CHEST OF MUSIC
Feb 21, 2020
4 minutes
By Ray Cleaver
Photographs: Rob Tucker
What’s the difference between a pipe organ and a chest of drawers?
Nothing at all, according to Eldon Peters of New Plymouth. Few people head into their shed to play tunes on their chest of drawers but Eldon does just that, having made a functioning instrument from one.
The project may also answer the perennial question of what architects get up to when they retire and the shed beckons. Eldon’s remarkable contraption appears to the eye to be a perfectly functional homemade kauri chest of drawers. The difference is that it is also a working musical
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