| At the home of a friend I often visit, sets a beautiful | | | | as my Aunt played several songs as we sang until we |
| black Baby Grand piano. It is elegant. My friend keeps it | | | | couldn't talk or she couldn't play anymore. Those times |
| well cleaned and shiny...even the bench is treated with | | | | are gone now, but I still remember how I loved to hear |
| the same care. | | | | her play those wonderful melodies |
| It sets as if he wishes to display it to everyone who | | | | I listen to certain piano players on the radio, or on old |
| comes to his house...as if he has a little bit of pride | | | | records, and on CDs when I have time. Every time I do |
| attached to it. It's right in the middle of a Great room | | | | this, I try to imagine being there as this was being |
| and even if you tried, you couldn't miss seeing it when | | | | recorded. How great it would be to be there when |
| you walked in. When asked, it doesn't take too much | | | | these individuals created that atmosphere around the |
| encouraging on my part to get him to play a tune. | | | | music, the sound, and that piano. |
| The tone that comes from this beautiful piece of | | | | I was told by my friend that it's not really that difficult to |
| furniture is absolutely wonderful to listen to. When my | | | | learn how to play the piano. There are several factors |
| friend plays that piano, he plays with a real passion for | | | | that are important that one must remember if he/she |
| harmony and melody that is often overlooked in | | | | is going to play the piano like the professionals do, or |
| today's hurried life. | | | | like any other person does, who has a passion for |
| I enjoy listening to the musical sound made when a | | | | great piano music. |
| skillful person "tickles" the ivories. I have a real love for | | | | One very important thing is to have an instructor that |
| music anyway, but when the piano is played while I'm | | | | has devised a method that will help any student of the |
| in the room, I give permission to my imagination to take | | | | piano to learn quickly but effectively. Some people like |
| me away to another world. | | | | to play the piano as a recreation and more times than |
| Music, in its true form, is essentially the plunking, beating | | | | not, their playing is not all that good |
| on, or the blowing into, man crafted mechanical | | | | In addition to that, they usually only know a few songs |
| "instruments", for the lack of a better word. They are | | | | they can play all the way through. That's usually |
| made of just about any type of material known to | | | | attributed to a fact that they probably learned to play |
| man and usually have a known history about the origin | | | | the piano casually and most likely by memory instead |
| or the creation of such instrument. | | | | of by the notes on the musical score. |
| But when you get past all that "stuff", you come to a | | | | It's far better to play the piano with a confidence that |
| realization that whatever these are made of or how | | | | only comes from proper training, patience, and practice |
| they are used, the sound made through them by the | | | | than to play one with none of those qualities. While |
| skillful talents of an individual is sometimes awesome, | | | | there are many people who play the piano well, they |
| and oftentimes even thrilling. | | | | would probably admit that if they had taken piano |
| Some of my fondest memories are of a time when | | | | lesson from a good teacher, they might be a better |
| we, as family members, would gather around the piano | | | | and more confident player. |