A community piano beloved by visitors to San Francisco’s Sunset Dunes has been destroyed amid a spate of vandalism targeting community property at the recently opened park, advocates said.
An Outer Sunset resident who went to play the instrument, known colloquially as the “wave piano” due to its proximity to the ocean, found that almost none of the keys worked early Saturday, said Lucas Lux, president of the volunteer nonprofit Friends of Sunset Dunes. Lux was also the campaign manager for Proposition K, the measure voters approved in November 2024 that closed the Upper Great Highway to cars and opened the park.
All the evidence points to someone “very intentionally” damaging the piano, ripping off the felted hammers controlling all but 10 of its keys, political communications consultant Catie Stewart told the Chronicle. Piano maintenance experts have since confirmed the instrument is damaged beyond repair…