Piano in the Parlour: When the Piano Was New Zealands Home Entertainment Centre

Piano In The Parlour takes an affectionate look at when the piano was our most important domestic possession. At the centre of entertainment in the home and often in the community, it also stoked the flames of love for countless courting couples. The extreme lengths pioneers went to, when putting pianos in their homes, were highlighted by Jane Campion's The Piano. That was fiction, but similar real-life stories are recounted here.