When I first heard that the last piano maker in Britain was tucked away in the Yorkshire Dales, a place with fond childhood memories, I knew I had to photograph it. Britain once had more than 300 piano factories. Today there is only Cavendish Pianos, housed in an old forge near Bolton Abbey, where a team of eight builds just 20 to 30 instruments a year, each taking four to six months to complete. What drew me as a photographer was the intimacy of that process: solid oak chosen for its grain and left for years to season, soundboards slowly formed over several weeks, felt made just up the road in Pudsey. As founder Adam Cox says, leather, metal, wood and wool combine to create ‘something with a soul that people can fall in love with’. This project is my attempt to capture a living tradition holding its ground at the very edge of disappearance.