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29.06.2021
The instrument of jazzman Thierry Lang moved into his new home in Romont yesterday
PHOTOS ALAIN WICHT TEXTE Charles Grandjean
Romont »A fugue for piano in a movement of helicopter rotors. This strange score, leaving little room for improvisation, was performed yesterday without the slightest hitch.
It was 11 o’clock sharp when the grand piano of jazz musician Thierry Lang rose into the air from the terrace of the musician’s now former studio in Ollon (VD). It was then loaded into a van parked on an adjacent street. Destination Romont, where this magnificent Steinway model D, whose replacement value is around 187,000 francs, will continue its career.
It is the approach of the retirement of the artist of Romont origin which explains this move. “I’ll be 65 at the end of the year. I had to repay the studio mortgage, ”explains the musician who sold the studio building“ Opposite ”to individuals. “Since I had to get this piano out, I put a little ad on Facebook, in all innocence. I played 18 years with this instrument
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