“It was important and now it’s not.”

At the foot of the Paiporta ravine, the carefree and rapid sound of a ukulele stands out above the sirens and engines of vehicles busy cleaning the street. A few meters away, at the door of a low, reddish house, Joan, 11, strums the four strings sitting on a small wicker chair during one of her breaks. Joan’s family home suffered the same fate as many others in the area: water flooded the ground floor, destroying everything in its path. Among the items the water swallowed was the family piano Joan played on. A piano from the Sánchez Ferris house with more than a hundred years of history and which survived the previous floods in Valencia. “It was important and now it’s not,” he says.