Our old friend Matthew Sperry, to whom this site is dedicated, was an amazing avant garde bassist who sometimes played with chunks of styrofoam, scrap wood, and other goodies.

I love taking Miles to Adventure Playground, where they have several old pianos that have become part of the environment. Kids have painted every inch of them (including the strings), and sometimes stuff the strings with anything they can find. Takes the idea of “prepared piano” to a whole ‘nuther level.