Homemade success sounds sweet

Nancy Howie started making her own instruments as a lockdown project and hasn’t stopped. Piano tuner, singer/songwriter and musician, Nancy Howie, of Whangaparāoa, discovered a new string to her bow in lockdown – one that she made herself. Nancy has been writing songs and playing instruments since childhood. She says her obsession with music began when she first heard a Beatles record at the age of five. A piano tuner by trade, she also plays guitar and bass. Nancy, 33, had a creative spurt in lockdown which included arrangements of songs by other musicians. One of those arrangements needed a ...