Thankful day 13

Even though I don't play it very often any more (why don't I?) I am thankful for my piano. I love this piano. It replace a spinet that I bought when Donovan was 3 or 4. The spinet had been tuned and retuned again and again. It had a broken key that had been fixed twice and the next repair would have cost me as much as a new spinet.

But truthfully? I had always dreamed of a cherry baby grand in a parlor. But I didn't have either the money for a baby grand or a parlor. So I went shopping for a new piano that I could afford. When I was at Piano Gallery the saleswoman asked me what kind of piano I wanted. Now, I believe in asking for what you want. You may not get it, but if you don't ask you are for sure not to get it. So I said, "If money was no object I would get a cherry baby grand." And what do you know, just that week a professional pianist had traded in his one year old cherry baby grand for a brand new one. And since it was now a used piano, it was in my price range!

So while I still don't have a parlor to put it in, and it takes up half of my living room, for the last five years the kids and I have enjoyed the beautiful sounds of a cherry baby grand. It has the most beautiful sound, (except it needs tuned right now) and it is the most beautiful color and I love playing it or just listening to the kids play it. And the best thing about it? About the only time it does not have beautiful music coming out of it is when the kids are asleep or not home.


This is the only decent picture of it. Just igonore the rest of the room, it is a before redoing picture.

Just to prove that the room does look better in the after condition.

The piano is in the corner to the right, but I don't have a picture of it and that wall is ripped open right now to fix a pipe.

---

Indeed.