‘The piano has a story’: Musical relic with scars from Halifax Explosion on sale
HALIFAX — A musical relic that survived one of Halifax’s darkest days with only minor scars is going up for sale.
Lois Miller says her grandfather bought a Stohlman New York piano from Phinney’s Music Shop on Barrington Street, installing it in the family home decades ago.
But the century-old piano was forever marred by bits of glass that shattered during the Halifax Explosion, causing dozens of small indentations down one side of the instrument.
The blast on Dec. 6, 1917, was caused by a collision in the nearby harbour between two ships, one of which was carrying wartime explosives.