SCANDAL: Piano to Perform Naked This Sunday!

Sunday, September 15, the Franklin Historical Museum will inaugurate its new "Third Sunday--Music at the Museum" series.

Appropriately, enough, the 'star' will be a recently rebuilt and tuned, made-in-Franklin Trowbridge upright piano, dating from 1904.  Multi-instrumentalist, Krishna Swain, from Bellingham will be performing and for at least part of the event, the covers will come of the vintage instrument so that the audience can see the amazing, mechanical innards turning keystrokes into music.

The event will kick off with a short overview of the Trowbridge Piano company and its history. 

Also on tap is a rare performance on the museum's 19th century 'pump organ' which formerly served worshippers in Franklin's Old South Meeting House. With organist and Commission member, Randy LaRosa.

The museum opens for regular Sunday hours at 1 and the talk and musical performance will follow at 4, probably lasting about an hour. The event is free but donations are always appreciated.

The third Sunday event in October will feature a talk by Jon Mitchell, a composer and Franklin resident, about his recently debuted opera, Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter. A video of the opera performance, recorded this summer at the First Universalist Society of Franklin, will also be shown.