we have got a piano!!!!

[ewein2412]

it arrived yesterday. I think this just about completes the list of demands polite requests that I moved in with over twelve years ago when I first came to live with Tim. Actually, it was not at my request that the piano finally arrived. It was only after Sara had taken over a year of piano lessons on the 5-octave electric keyboard that Tim finally said, "Sara's worked really hard at this and it would sound so much nicer on a piano..."

I bought the keyboard for myself, a couple of Christmases ago, because I was so homesick for the American tunes to "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear."

May I add here: The genius of Mozart, the REAL genius of Mozart, is not that he wrote amazing music. It's not even that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that any old dope with a little bit of musical ability can play. The REAL genius of Mozart is that he wrote quite a bit of amazing music that is relatively simple to play AND--this is the genius part--he makes you feel like a virtuoso while you're playing it.

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[firiel44.livejournal.com]

How nice! Now I miss playing. Mmmm, Mozart. I would pull out my old "A Little Night Music" and have a go at it in the music department on my lunch break, but it's a duet (originally played with the teacher I didn't like, before I had the teacher who was pretty much genius.)

[ewein2412]

it is hard to play duets with yourself on the piano. Believe me, I have tried.

[firiel44.livejournal.com]

Whoever did the arrangement did really well. Most of the melody is in the student part, so it sort of sounds like you're only missing one hand. But even when it's just the same two or three chords over and over, it still sounds good somehow.