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00:00Welcome to the repair shop, where cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life.
00:06Anything can happen. This is the workshop of dreams.
00:09Home to furniture restorer Jay Blades.
00:12Nowadays things are not built to last, so we've become part of this throwaway culture.
00:17It's all about preserving and restoring. We bring the old back to new.
00:22Working alongside Jay will be some of the country's leading craftspeople.
00:26I like making things with my hands. I love to see how things work and I want to know how
00:31things work.
00:32Whether it's a Rembrandt or somebody's family piece, every painting deserves the same.
00:38Each bringing their own unique set of skills.
00:41You're about to witness some magic.
00:43They will resurrect, revive, and rejuvenate treasured possessions and irreplaceable pieces of family history.
00:54Oh my goodness me. It looks like it's new.
00:58Bringing both the objects.
01:00Oh wow.
01:02And the memories that they hold, back to life.
01:06Oh thank you.
01:07Oh.
01:17In the repair shop today, accordion expert Roger Thomas wrestles with an instrument that survived the blitz.
01:24But now sounds like a strangled cat.
01:28I have to be very careful not to cause any damage because if I snap that off then I'm going
01:32to be in trouble.
01:33While furniture restorer Will Kirk performed some emergency surgery on a 50 year old fish.
01:40This was probably carved by one of Fletcher Christian's descendants.
01:47But first, something to test the skills of furniture restorer Jay Blades and clockmaker Steve Fletcher.
01:53A treasured family piece belonging to Jane Fanner.
01:57What have we got in it?
01:58Something that, to me, very, very special.
02:02Because it was made by my dad.
02:03Feels like Christmas time.
02:04I'm wrapping a present.
02:06Wow.
02:07There we are.
02:08So your father made this clock?
02:10All of the clock, yes.
02:11Wow.
02:12One of the things that you need to know is my father was totally blind.
02:16I mean he couldn't even tell the difference between day and night.
02:19Seriously?
02:21Dad and I were very close.
02:23He was born with something called retina pigmentosis.
02:27And gradually the eyesight got narrower and narrower and narrower.
02:32By the time he met my mother, he was able to see only a minuscule amount.
02:38And he lost his sight completely after that.
02:41I absolutely love this clock.
02:44It always chimed all the time he was alive.
02:46And then, just after he died, it stopped chiming, it stopped working, and it needs mending.
02:53Well, I've never seen anything like it in my life.
02:56I can see in here that it's got nine gongrels, which means that it plays Whittington Chimes.
03:03I can't remember the exact tune, but I can tell you it sort of trills.
03:07It's an incredibly pretty little sort of tune.
03:12Really?
03:13Yeah.
03:14I'm just looking at the door that goes on there.
03:16I was just trying to figure out how he made that by feeling there.
03:21That in itself is just, like, amazing.
03:23Sound mattered so much to him that I really want to hear the chime working more than anything.
03:29I don't even mind if it doesn't keep good time, but I'd love to hear those chimes again.
03:33You can do him proud.
03:34You can do your dad proud.
03:35Oh, I'm so thrilled.
03:36All right, you take care now.
03:38Bye-bye now.
03:39Now, that's blowing me away now.
03:41That's just made me, like, wow.
03:43I'm actually thrilled and excited, but also missing dad more than ever.
03:49Now it's down to Jay, Steve and the repair shop team to get this treasured timepiece ticking and chiming again.
03:56What I think I'll be able to do is revitalise the actual case.
04:00So not taking away any of the integrity, but making sure it just shines.
04:04Yeah, it's looking a bit tired at the moment, isn't it?
04:06It does look a little bit tired.
04:07Yeah.
04:07I think the main challenge is going to be just making sure we get the movement working okay.
04:12So I'll strip down the whole clock right down to every single screw.
04:17Seriously?
04:18Yeah.
04:18So you're not going to lose any screws.
04:20You're going to take them all apart and you're going to be able to put it back together again.
04:23Yeah, every single part.
04:30Right.
04:31Taking the mechanism out.
04:33So it's like a piece of furniture now.
04:36Cool.
04:36So I can have my wicked way with it.
04:37You can have your wicked way with it.
04:38Thank you, sir.
04:39Yeah.
04:41Kirsten.
04:42Hi.
04:43I wonder whether you can do a little job for me.
04:45Steve is also calling on the skills of repair shop ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsey
04:51to help give the face a well-needed makeover.
04:54I've got this dial here that I think we could improve by painting in the numerals black.
05:02That leaves Steve with the main challenge of getting the chime sounding.
05:06The hammers that hit the gong rods are powered by the clock mechanism, which hasn't worked since Jane's father's death.
05:14So to fix the chimes, Steve's going to have to first mend the whole clock mechanism.
05:20The main problem are in the bearings, these holes here.
05:24Even more tough than that is that some of the teeth are slightly worn.
05:29So the main challenge is going to be to get the chimes sounding as Jane would have remembered them.
05:34And that's going to be quite interesting.
05:46From tired treasures that just want some TLC, to mouldering old masters in need of a full MOT,
05:54the repair shop team takes on labours of love that have lain unfixed and forlorn for years.
06:00Will, here you go. There's one for you. So, what's in the box?
06:04It's a flying fish. Wow.
06:08This family pet was plucked from a remote corner of the Pacific by Faye Lambert's parents nearly 60 years ago.
06:15He needs a little help from furniture restorer Will to bring him out of retirement.
06:20You can see what's happened. Its tail snapped off, unfortunately.
06:25Aww. You don't happen to have, I'm sure that you would have bought it with you if you did have
06:30that.
06:30I'm afraid that's longer. Right.
06:31It was bought on our way back from Australia and I remember my mother coming down,
06:37waking my sister and me up and saying,
06:39come up on deck because something quite exciting is happening.
06:43And the islanders were rowing out in their canoes from Pitpan Island and they were selling their wares.
06:50Wow. I don't know if you've heard of Mutiny on the Bounty, but this was probably carved by one of
06:56Fletcher Christian's descendants.
06:59The crew who mutinied on HMS Bounty in 1789 in the South Pacific settled on Pitcairn Island.
07:06Their descendants live there to this day and carved flying fish like Faye's can fetch up to 200 pounds in
07:14good condition.
07:15Steve. Yeah.
07:16You haven't got a pair of calipers.
07:19Will's toughest test will be to make a seamless repair without the original piece of tail that's broken off,
07:25as it was carved from a tree that grows on the other side of the world, thousands of miles from
07:31the repair shop.
07:32So I've managed to find some wood that has a very similar colour and grain to the fish.
07:38And hopefully I might have enough width on that to make up the missing part of the tail.
07:48So what I'm looking for here, I mean I have an overall decent colour match,
07:53but it'd be quite nice to get a similar grain pattern.
07:56Excuse the licking.
07:58If you look here, you've also got a bit of figure and a bit of grain going on in the
08:02wood there,
08:02so I think if I can get the angle right, I could probably have like a decent colour match
08:08and also a match with the pattern as well.
08:13It's weird to think that the last person working on this fish would have been one of the Islanders.
08:18It's actually quite an honour really.
08:27Meanwhile, third generation clock maker Steve has reached a critical point in getting Jane's clock working again.
08:34It's bath time.
08:36So I'm just cleaning up these barrels now.
08:38We use old fashioned clock cleaning fluid.
08:42And then I scrub them up in normal washing out liquid.
08:46This is the way that we've been cleaning clocks forever.
08:50My grandfather used to clean them in exactly the same way.
08:52I'm just using a water-based paint with a pigment and just flooding that into these areas.
09:01It's quite painstaking and quite fiddly, hence the magnifying glass.
09:05I just find when I'm doing really sort of fiddly painting really close up,
09:10you sort of tend not to breathe, you hold your breath so that you get a completely sort of straight
09:14line.
09:14So yeah, not much chatting while I get on with this.
09:21Jay?
09:22Yeah?
09:23You look better with your mask on.
09:26That's what a missus tells me.
09:30With the hundreds of individual parts washed and clean,
09:34Steve must now put the clock back together again,
09:37before he can fix the chimes and find out exactly what they sound like.
09:42How do you, Steve?
09:43I'm just putting some new springs into two of the barrels.
09:46What, that's going in one of them?
09:48Yeah, and then the barrels go into the clock.
09:51So, Steve, do we know anything more about the Whittington Chimes then?
09:54Any history about that?
09:55Yeah, they're based on the chimes of St Mary's Church at Bow, so the Bow Bells.
10:01Bow Bells, yeah, East London.
10:02All right.
10:03And they're called Whittington because they're based on a story about Richard Whittington,
10:07the mayor of London, when he was a lad and he was Dick Whittington.
10:12Oh!
10:12And they've just been called Whittington Chimes.
10:15So, Steve, when will we hear the chimes the same way that Jane remembers them?
10:19I'm almost there on the movement.
10:20I know it doesn't look it, but I'm on the home straight at the moment.
10:23Really?
10:24This is the easier part, actually.
10:26Did you just say this is the easy part?
10:28Yeah.
10:29It doesn't look easy at all.
10:30How many pieces have you got here that goes into this clock?
10:34Just in this unit alone, I suppose there's a hundred pieces.
10:38Wow.
10:39And the rest of the clock, I suppose, another 150 pieces.
10:43But hold on, I do see a washer there.
10:45No, no, no, no, no, no.
10:46That was an extra washer.
10:47You sure?
10:48Don't point that out.
10:49All right.
10:50You know what?
10:51Funnily enough, I had lost the washer.
10:53I had lost the washer.
10:55So I took a washer out of my washer drawer and put it in, and then I found the washer.
11:01The washer.
11:02It does happen.
11:04So now you've got to just put it all together?
11:06Yep.
11:06I'm just putting it all together now.
11:08So then I'd best go and crack on with the case, actually, shouldn't I?
11:10Have you not done it yet?
11:11Well, I'll see you in a minute.
11:13I'm gone.
11:14Good.
11:19How you doing?
11:20The only lady you need to see is Kirsten just over there.
11:22The repair shop experts have countless years of experience at rescuing cherished possessions
11:27from languishing broken in the country's attics and cellars.
11:32What have you got there?
11:33That looks nice.
11:34Hello.
11:35So what's this?
11:36This was my mother's accordion.
11:39Oh, wow.
11:39But she has given it to my daughter now.
11:42Next to arrive in need of some repair shop TLC, the Brierley family have something to test
11:47the musical talents of accordion expert Roger Thomas.
11:51Because Sarah's the musician of the family.
11:53Oh, so you can play this then, Sarah?
11:54Well, I would like to.
11:56It was my mum's.
11:57Right.
11:57Who is now 94.
11:59Do you know when she got this one?
12:00When she was 17.
12:02Okay.
12:02She came home with her first week's wages, and her mum went and put it down as a deposit
12:06for them to buy this.
12:08So it was actually brand new when they bought it.
12:09So I'm just trying to do the maths.
12:11So how long?
12:11So she's 94.
12:12So it's just under 80 years old, isn't it?
12:16Roger is one of just a handful of specialist accordion restorers in the UK.
12:20But can he get this antique instrument playing sweet music once more?
12:26You can hear that really high note.
12:28Yeah.
12:28Because it should make that really high-pitched noise, should it?
12:31No, no, it's very annoying, actually.
12:32Because you can't actually play it either.
12:35Yeah, it's like a can.
12:37Yeah.
12:38It doesn't sound right, no?
12:40Okay.
12:41These keys that are popping up, they look like they're kind of right.
12:44You can deal with that kind of.
12:45Yeah.
12:46It's a beautiful instrument, isn't it?
12:47Yeah.
12:48But the story that my mum, you know, about the accordion is my mum used to play it during
12:53the war, during the Blitz.
12:54Oh, wow.
12:54In the shelters.
12:56Really?
12:56So they used to go, obviously, underground and play to keep people's spirits up.
13:01So what does she think this is then?
13:02Does she know this is here today?
13:03She doesn't know anything about it.
13:05She doesn't know anything about it.
13:06And in fact, last time she saw Sarah, she said,
13:09How are you getting on with my advice?
13:12Sarah then says, Oh.
13:13Boss Dad.
13:15She knows it's broken and she's been nagging for a couple of years now for me to get it
13:20done.
13:20So what would this mean to mum to actually get this repaired then?
13:23Oh.
13:24She'd be really pleased.
13:25Yeah.
13:26I think really she'd like me to be able to play it.
13:28So it's going to mean a lot.
13:29It's going to mean a lot.
13:31So hopefully by the time you come, not hopefully, by the time you come back, I know you look to
13:35me funny there.
13:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:37Hopefully, yeah.
13:38Definitely, by the time you come back, it will not sound like a strangled cat.
13:41It will if I play it.
13:42No, yeah.
13:43If you play it or me as well.
13:44Yeah, yeah.
13:45But it's definitely going to sound good.
13:46Thank you very much.
13:47Nice to meet you.
13:47You take care now.
13:49All right.
13:49Cheers.
13:49Bye-bye.
13:50Bye-bye.
13:51Well, that's a nice story.
13:53Yeah, it is.
13:56Hmm.
13:57I've got to adjust the levers inside here.
13:59And there's always a little bit of a risk there.
14:01So I've got to be very careful I don't break anything.
14:03That's the kind of first challenge.
14:04OK.
14:04So what should a working accordion sound like anyway?
14:08Well, I can't actually play this one right now, but I've got...
14:11Why don't we go on over to the bench?
14:13OK.
14:13I've got a little melodion over there that I can just give you a rough idea
14:16of what it ought to sound like.
14:18That sounds all right.
14:20Yeah.
14:31That's really nice, eh.
14:38That's a rough idea.
14:42So have you fixed it already, then?
14:43Yeah, I've fixed it.
14:45I can't actually say that as a ringtone on my phone.
14:47Actually, if you could do that again...
14:52Before he can get Iris' 80-year-old machine sounding as good as that, Roger needs to investigate.
14:58So this was a bit kind of entering into the unknown when you open up one of these to take
15:03a look inside.
15:04And take the grill off.
15:06An accordion works by blowing air from the bellows across the reeds inside.
15:12The notes are determined by which keys and buttons are pressed.
15:16Roger's detective work reveals a problem straight away.
15:19Well, I can deduce from this that one of the pallets has fallen off.
15:23And look, there's the pallet.
15:26This is a pallet.
15:27It's a leather and felt sandwich.
15:30And when you operate the bellows, it forms an air seal.
15:33And this is why we're getting the sound when you...
15:38The dead cat sound.
15:39The other thing I need to do is just give this leather a bit of a brush.
15:45I can glue that back on there.
15:47I then can give it a full test.
15:49So I can test all the notes to see whether there are any other sounds that we don't want.
16:04While Roger's specialist skills have focused on finessing the accordion,
16:08the rest of the repair shop team have been turning their talents to getting Jane's clock ticking
16:14and chiming again in time for her return.
16:18You got a minute, Steve?
16:19Yeah. Oh.
16:20I've got your clock face.
16:22Would you call that clock face or...?
16:24It's a chapter ring.
16:25Chapter ring.
16:26OK.
16:27That is looking really good.
16:29Brilliant.
16:30Oh, fantastic.
16:31I'll leave it with you.
16:31Now, with all the pieces back in Steve's hands, his final job is to put it back together
16:37again before Jane arrives.
16:40Um...
16:42I've got to make an adjustment.
16:43It's not going to go straight in.
16:45I've put a bolt instead of a rooted screw in, um, and I've just got to take a very small
16:51amount, um, of material off of the case.
16:54After taking the clock apart, down to the very last screw, it's the very last screw that's
16:59undone, Steve.
17:01Pressure seconds slipping away, it's over to Jay for a last minute fix.
17:05I can't get my file in there.
17:06I don't know whether you can just cut something like that here.
17:09Oh, I'll tell you what we could do, though.
17:11We could take the door off, cos it's the door that's in the way, isn't it?
17:13Yeah, it is, yeah, yeah.
17:14There we are.
17:15So, just go straight down, you want, yeah?
17:18Yeah.
17:23I think that might do, actually.
17:25Yeah?
17:25Right, ready?
17:26Yeah.
17:27What am I holding my breath for?
17:29Tense moment.
17:32Perfect.
17:33That's good.
17:33Absolutely perfect.
17:35Well done.
17:37Hello, Jane.
17:38How are you?
17:39Yeah, good.
17:40This is the bit we really love, so I'll just go and get it for you.
17:43Oh, wow.
17:49There, we are.
17:52That looks wonderful.
17:53Oh, look, you've done the dial, the case.
18:01How are you doing, Jane?
18:02You all right?
18:03Dad would have liked that.
18:05Yeah.
18:06He'd be, um...
18:08He'd be proud of that, and he'd be...
18:11He would have loved to have met you.
18:13Oh, fantastic.
18:14And you.
18:15So...
18:16Does it go?
18:18It's all going absolutely beautifully.
18:21So I'm just going to chime it for you.
18:24Ooh.
18:35How's that?
18:40Wonderful.
18:41Fantastic.
18:46It was ticking and chiming the day he died, which came as a complete surprise and was, if you can
18:55have a good death, then he certainly did. He fell asleep in the chair next to this clock.
19:00Oh, that's...
19:01So, um...
19:03To hear this again is absolutely wonderful.
19:09Um...
19:09You've given it life that it had lost.
19:12Let's have a look at the back.
19:14Yes, let's start turning it around.
19:16Have a look at it.
19:16It's in it.
19:18Oh, my goodness me.
19:19I've cleaned everything up.
19:21Um...
19:21It looks like it's new.
19:23Yes.
19:23It's...
19:24That is astounding.
19:26By getting the clock working again, I've got a bit of our father back, which both myself and my sisters
19:34will love.
19:35Oh, thank you.
19:37Thank you so much.
19:39You're very, very welcome.
19:40It's been an absolute pleasure to do.
19:42Oh, I just want to kiss you.
19:46I'm going to grab my sisters and say, come up here, girls.
19:50Let's have a party.
19:52Let's have a clock party.
19:54It's part of our family and I am absolutely thrilled to be taking it home.
20:06As another repair shop project has restored the pride of place, accordion restorer Roger has reached a crucial point on
20:14his project.
20:15He's taken the 80-year-old instrument to pieces and is testing all 448 individual reads.
20:23So all of these are like notes then?
20:25That's correct.
20:28So that's kind of okay.
20:32That's not.
20:32Okay, that's quite cool, man.
20:33So that's how it works.
20:34And I've just been checking the general condition of these valves, these little strips of leather.
20:39So, Roger, now that you've got this apart, could you tell me anything more about the history of it?
20:42Well, we know it's made in Italy.
20:44Actually, this one was made in Castelfordado.
20:46Oh, right.
20:47And Castelfordado, these days, is regarded as the capital of quality accordion manufacturing.
20:53So this has come from good stock?
20:54Yeah.
20:55And the most expensive accordion would be roughly?
20:58Well, you pay five or six, seven thousand or more.
21:04Thousand?
21:04Yeah, yeah.
21:05For professional accordions, yeah.
21:06Wow.
21:07Or even more.
21:07I mean, I've seen them more than that.
21:09And we're going to get it working and sounding beautiful again?
21:11It's a lovely instrument, actually, I have to say.
21:13It just looks beautiful.
21:15And when it comes back together, it will sound beautiful as well.
21:17Yeah.
21:20Just going to put it back.
21:22The accordion's not the only thing in the workshop in need of a tuning.
21:26Do you want to tell you what note that is?
21:28I think it was in B.
21:28Oh, sorry.
21:34There you go, try it again.
21:37Yeah, there you go.
21:38What's that?
21:38It's B, isn't it?
21:40Yeah.
21:41It's about a B.
21:44Is that an E sharp?
21:45Yeah, it's there.
21:46Is that right there?
21:48Oh, that's enough flat.
21:50That's enough flat.
21:52Finished.
21:53So, I have to be very careful not to cause any damage to where this lever is fixed to the
21:59key.
21:59Because if I snap that off, then I'm going to be in trouble.
22:03Roger's realigning all the keys on the keyboard and making sure none are leaking air.
22:08But the parts are nearly 80 years old and one false move now could spell disaster.
22:14Originally, I thought I just need to adjust one or two of these keys.
22:18But actually, they all need adjusting.
22:20And the reason why you want the keys nice and flat like this is because it gives you a nice
22:25action.
22:26It's like the response of the keyboard.
22:28And also, aesthetically, of course, it looks a lot nicer.
22:33Okay, so now I just use my little gauge to check.
22:37I'm still a bit proud.
22:38Go the other way.
22:40Sometimes you get it right first time and other times you don't.
22:42Obviously, you don't want to be bending it backwards and forwards too often too much
22:44because then you're going to introduce some kind of, you know, metal fatigue in there.
22:50If I broke one of these levers, it would be a bit of a problem.
22:54I'm not going to.
23:02Also at the fine-tuning stage, Will's angling to get a seamless fit for Faye's 60-year-old fish before
23:10she arrives to pick it up.
23:12A little bit of polish on that tail and we are just in time, I think.
23:16You're really up against it today.
23:23Oh, hello.
23:24Hello.
23:26So, are you ready?
23:27Yes, I am.
23:29Ta-da-da-da.
23:30Oh, creepy.
23:31My fish has got a tail.
23:34Oh, it looks great.
23:35Yeah?
23:35I've actually managed to get the car spot on.
23:38He's looking pretty smart and he will go home and be put in pride of place.
23:43Thank you very much.
23:44Thank you for all that hard work.
23:46Bye-bye.
23:46Bye-bye.
23:52Roger's hoping he'll also hit the high notes with the owners of that very special instrument he's been working on.
23:58This is the final bellows pin, so put that in there.
24:02And the next stage is for me to give it its final test.
24:05How are we doing, Roger? Are we ready?
24:06We are, yes.
24:07It's done.
24:08It does look gorgeous.
24:10The only thing left now is to hear what it sounds like.
24:12Yeah.
24:15It sounds better.
24:25I told you I'm not a maestro.
24:26No, it sounds good.
24:27It's kind of a demo.
24:28Yeah, that's a good demo.
24:29So you fixed it then?
24:30Yeah.
24:31What we've got, I've noticed it when I came in, is just the case.
24:34It looks extremely tired and a repair that we would not be proud of.
24:38You've done such a great job on the actual machine itself, Roger.
24:42It seems a shame to put it in something like this, isn't it?
24:44Yeah, I agree.
24:45Yeah?
24:45So, I know a man in my bedroom, Will.
24:48He's trying to shy away at the moment.
24:50So, Will.
24:51How are we doing, my friend?
24:52Oh.
24:53Got this.
24:54Sounds like trouble.
24:55It is trouble.
24:56Sounds like trouble.
24:56We need disrepaired.
24:57What's all this?
24:58I know.
24:59But I was thinking all we could do is take this off and then you must have some kind of
25:05stain.
25:05Oh, gosh.
25:06That's it.
25:06Let's not make it any worse, though.
25:08Yeah?
25:08Not any worse.
25:09Just so it looks uniform, though, I would say.
25:11Well, the good thing is, it's solid.
25:14Made of plywood, I think.
25:15Yeah.
25:16So it's just a superficial damage to the surface.
25:18Yeah.
25:18I am going to work some magic.
25:21In the next five minutes, yeah?
25:24There's no rush.
25:25There's no rush.
25:26But probably five to three minutes.
25:27If you make me a cup of tea, three minutes.
25:29I'm on it, mate.
25:30I'm on it.
25:30Cup of tea.
25:31Two and a half minutes now, yeah?
25:33Yeah, right.
25:34Two in a minute.
25:49I like that.
25:50Looks diamond.
25:51Yeah?
25:51Yeah.
25:52That looks good.
25:54I'm very pleased.
25:55And it looks, it is a stunning looking instrument.
25:57I mean, I have to say.
25:58And I am still amazed at the condition that it's in, given its age.
26:02It's 80 years old.
26:03I hope Sarah enjoys it and it'll keep her going for a good few years.
26:06Maybe another 80 years.
26:07Who knows?
26:08Cheers, mate.
26:11Now restored to its former glory, Sarah and Howard are ready to reveal the accordion
26:16to its original and unsuspecting order.
26:2094-year-old Iris.
26:24Hello.
26:26Well, we've got a surprise lined up, in case you hadn't guessed.
26:29You all right?
26:30Do you need a hand?
26:31Yes.
26:31All right.
26:32Hello.
26:35So, this is your surprise.
26:38So, you know when you opened it up, it made a terrible noise?
26:42Yeah.
26:42Oh, you had it fixed?
26:44Yeah.
26:44Because there was a key sticking up here.
26:47Yeah, it was this one, I think, wasn't it?
26:49And then when you opened it, it was the note was...
26:51Yeah, permanent noise, yeah.
26:53Must be 10 years since I lose that.
26:56But it's all in working order now.
26:59Do you want to see Sarah play it?
27:00Yes, please.
27:09It's cool.
27:38Good.
27:42Very good.
27:44She was just so happy that it had been fixed.
27:46Can't believe what they've done.
27:48I knew nothing about it.
27:50It was a complete shock.
27:53The best thing was her reaction to seeing Sarah play it, without a doubt.
27:57She got quite emotional, because it brought back memories for her, but it was also, you know, passing that legacy
28:03on to her granddaughter.
28:04I hope that my granddaughter will look after it and play it and enjoy it as much as I did.
28:12Life goes on.
28:18Join us next time, as more precious pieces are rescued and their cherished memories restored, in The Repair Show.
28:29We'll see you next time.
28:29Bye.
28:56Bye.
28:56Bye.
28:57Bye.
28:57Bye.