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Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced)

Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments.

Tabitha John

Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers are presenting a performance of works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments at Exeter Library on Saturday 14 June.

Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) will feature works that celebrate the sounds of forgotten keyboards, dusty organs and salvaged circuitry.

They include Simon Belshaw’s Music Machines for Diverse Keyboards and Voices, Emma Welton’s Already Finished and Hugh Nankivell’s Fallow.

Paul Whitty will also perform a new piece inspired by organs found in tiny Devon churches.

The performance will blend music and the spoken word and be accompanied by the voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman.

Pipe organ keyboard in St Mary's Church, Throwleigh by Andrew Abbott Pipe organ keyboard in St Mary’s Church, Throwleigh.
Photo: Andrew Abbott under Creative Commons license.

Exeter Contemporary Sounds is a music-based ensemble formed in 2001 to play contemporary music by both local and established composers.

It performs in unconventional venues in an attempt to bring music away from concert halls.

Ian Summers, formerly head of medical imaging at the University of Exeter, is a musician and instrument collector.

He possesses a collection of more than 300 instruments from across the world and has exhibited in Exeter in collaboration with Maketank.

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Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) is at 2.30pm on Saturday 14 June 2025 at Exeter Library.

Tickets are being sold on a pay what you can basis with a £5 minimum plus booking fee.

For more information and to book visit the Ticket Source website.


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