One of the pianos used in Bristol's Play me, I'm yours project will be donated to a community gardening group.

Instruments were placed across the city throughout September, inviting people to play them as part of a project by Southville artist Luke Jerram.

The project came to an end on Monday after three weeks of impromptu music played by people of all ages and backgrounds.

Of the 16 installed, 12 survived as three were vandalised and a fourth was removed after complaints of noise.

Mr Jerram has installed pianos in five cities – the others being London, Birmingham, Sao Paulo and Sydney. Most of the Bristol pianos were so well used and weathered that they will now be recycled.

But one was in good enough condition to pass on, and that will go to the Easton-based Eastside Roots.

The group has transformed a number of derelict spaces in that part of the city into green areas.

The pianos were originally bought second hand, for £100 each and paid for as part of the £20 million Colston Hall renovation fund.

This is not the end of the project for Mr Jerram though, as he has had 22 other cities around the world express interest in his idea, originally thought up in a Bedminster launderette.

Belfast, Adelaide in Australia, San Jose in Costa Rica, Cincinnati in America and Barcelona in Spain will all be facing the music next year, while London will see a repeat performance.

Mr Jerram, 34, said: "I think it has gone down very well in Bristol. We have had some hiccups along the way, but people enjoyed it.

"Each city is very different. In London you had 30 pianos between 10 million people, while in Sao Paulo there were people who had never seen a piano before let alone played one.

"It was a bit disheartening pianos were damaged, I can't quite work out why that happened. Lessons have been learned about where we place them, but you take a risk. We could have put them in posh places like Clifton or Redland but then the project wouldn't have reached the kind of people we wanted to."

One Bristol piano in Dame Emily Park, Bedminster, was vandalised just 12 hours after the artist installed it.

The pianos in Victoria Park, Windmill Hill and St George Park followed a week later and the instrument in Southmead was taken away towards the end of the project after people broke into it to play it late at night.