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Kate Mishkin in Los Angeles

Los Angeles musicians lost homes, studios and instruments: ‘A part of you is gone’

bass guitar sits by tree
A bass guitar found in the wreckage of a house destroyed by the Eaton wildfire in Altadena, California, on 9 January. Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

Behind Duane Funderburk and his wife’s Altadena house, past the french doors and through the trees, stood a studio they had built themselves. It was a haven where Funderburk often played his grand piano, a Yamaha he bought in 1982.

“It had the most incredibly strong lower end – the bass notes of that piano were phenomenal,” said Funderburk, an artist-in-residence at Lake Avenue church in Pasadena.

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