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Piano Man 　整座城市都是你的樂章

精英翻譯社轉自http://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0062/284076/web/

　　To artist Luke Jerram, putting old pianos on streets around the world is a way to bring people together. His Play Me, I'm Yours project started in 2007, when he placed 15 street pianos across the city of Birmingham in the UK. The project attracted the interest of about 140,000 people in that city during a three-week period. Seeing the success of his work, Jerram later took Play Me, I'm Yours on the road in 2008, and it has been growing ever since. It has been estimated that over the last seven years, more than six million people have either played a street piano or gathered to listen to someone playing one in a total of 45 cities around the world.

對藝術家 Luke Jerram 來說，將老舊的鋼琴放置在全世界的街頭，是一個把人們凝聚在一起的方法。他的『Play Me, I'm Yours』計劃始於 2007 年時，他在英國伯明罕市裡放置了十五座街頭鋼琴。這個計劃在短短三個禮拜內就引發了十四萬人的興趣。因為 Jerram 看到他計劃如此的成功，所以之後在 2008 年時，他正式推動了『Play Me, I'm Yours』上路，從那以後該計劃日漸擴大。據估計，過去七年來，在全球一共四十五個城市裡，有六百多萬人不是彈過街頭鋼琴，就是聚在一起聽過某人彈琴。

　　The old pianos have been set up in parks, train stations, markets, and many different public spaces. Jerram said he got the idea by watching people doing their laundry at a store and not talking to each other. He thought playing the piano was a great way to get people talking to each other and enjoying each other's company. As it turns out, he was quite right about that.

　　那些老舊的鋼琴被放置在公園、火車站、市場和許多不同的公共場所裡。 Jerram 說他的靈感來自於觀察到人們在自助洗衣店裡洗衣服，卻沒和彼此聊天。於是他認為彈鋼琴是個很棒的方法使人們互相聊天，並且喜歡彼此作伴。結果，他的想法十分正確。