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

From the piano used for The Wizard of Oz to backyard studios, losses have performers and composers concerned for the future

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.