a big (little) family

Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.

Piano.

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Back when Eden was a baby and Liberty was two, we lived in South Dakota. I owned a beautiful antique player piano. When our home’s buyer wanted the piano, Blaine said it came with the house. He didn’t want to move it to Pennsylvania.

Turns out, pianos are heavy. Really heavy.

For thirteen years, I haven’t had another. Today, I got one.

I might be slightly giddy. I had four years of lessons in elementary school. I have so much to learn. But I shined up my new-to-me Craigslist freebie, and ignored the three dead keys that it turns out are more annoying than I thought they’d be, and made a mental note to hire a tuner. I took toothpaste to the brass pedals, Murphy’s oil to the wood, and I’m hoping I’ll be in this good of condition when I’m 100 years old.

I’m still working to learn guitar. I stink at that. But I remembered remarkably more than I expected when I pulled out a hymnal and picked out a tune on the piano. It was rather satisfying.

The kids might be a wee bit excited as well. I totally sounded like my mother when I forbade them to touch those foot pedals and make their chaotic noise/pounding sustained.

Now I have to rearrange pictures on the wall.

Comments

  1. Oh Adrienne it’s beautiful. So glad you finally have another piano so you and your children will be able to make beautiful music 🎼 🎶 Hopefully It will bring you many years of enjoyment.

  2. Good for you!!! You are a multi talented woman for sure. I am sure you will begin to pick up on things the more you practice. My husband plays and he went months he didn’t even sit down at the piano. It does make a difference. Then he was put in a position he had to play ay church for several months every service. He really had to practice . It sure made a difference too. Now he doesn’t have to play much and he has slacked off on his practice. He says it is easy to forget and his fingers get stiff too.

    You enjoy all you can and your kiddos may just join in with you one day.

    • I’m hoping! Liberty and Eden have a huge interest already. I dug out my old books I learned from and hope to at least get them started.