At some point in my childhood, my mom received my grandmother's piano. The piano wasn't anything fancy, just a simple upright, but to me, had wonderful history. We all "played" on it, usually self-teaching ourselves. However, my sister was the only one of us to actually take lessons. Not sure why I never did, nor do I even remember being offered the opportunity to do so.
Somewhere along the line, most of us where out of the house and my mom really didn't want the piano in her living room anymore. A neighbor's daughter, who by the way was part of the most musically gifted family I have ever know, was on the receiving end of taking home the piano.
Last Summer I had an itch to get a piano. I wanted to expose the girls to music, the love of it and to the art of making music, even if just self-taught. It would have been so simple if my mom had not given our family piano away for FREE. But because she choose to give it away, even though we all told her not too as someday one of us might like it, I had to go on a hunt for one. Not bitter at all. Really, I'm not.
So I found this well-used and well-loved piano on Craig's List. Here Paige and her cousin, Elizabeth, are making beautiful music together. And since we are in-between homes right now, can you guess where this piano now resides? Yep, under the picture against the wall in my mom's living room. Yes, the exact same wall where our family's piano use to live, before she gave it away for free.
