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My piano is turning 50 this year and I still use it—maybe not daily, but weekly during the church year. I use it mostly to learn and practice my choir music.
Thanks to this prompt, I looked in my piano bench and discovered paperwork documenting that my parents purchased the piano on September 10, 1974. I was nine. They bought it so that my sister and I could take lessons. I took lessons for about six years with a couple of different teachers. I really liked playing the piano. I think I enjoyed it more after I stopped taking lessons. Then I could play what I wanted and nobody was nagging me to practice. I liked playing pop songs and singing along.
When my husband and I bought our first house, my parents gave me the piano because I was the only one who played it. They paid real piano movers to bring it to my house. My daughter took lessons on it.
When we moved to our second house, I had regular movers take the piano with the rest of our stuff and it got slightly damaged, but nothing major. My daughter took several more years of lessons on it after the move.
So here’s to you old friend. I promise to get you tuned for your birthday.
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Happy birthday, MaryG’s piano. Enjoy your spa day when your strings get tightened up. You’ll feel like a million bucks.
It is my fervent wish that AI never is able to generate such a photo as you have taken here. I don’t think it will be able to. No non-human could capture the emotion in those draperies, with the emotion evoked by the glimpse of the outside, with the majestic dignity of the metronome that has marked time for many years.
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Thank you Susan. What a lovely comment!
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Wow, 50 years for your piano! That’s amazing. 🎹🎵✨
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Thank you!
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It fits perfectly in that space! 50 years, it’s almost like another sibling…
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Thank you! I had a hard time figuring out where to put it, then someone suggested I put it “kitty-corner,” which I took to mean diagonal. I like it that way too. Fake plant behind was a HomeGoods special. 😃
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Music makes for a good friend. It cries with you, it laughs with you. Sadly, I only recently threw the my electric organ I received for my 21st. There were no spare parts available. Cheers to your beautiful piano.
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Thank you so much! And so true. Music never leaves you.
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Wow! 50 years …you might have amazing memories with your lovely piano! 💖
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