Piano thoughts
Mar. 2nd, 2026 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeYesterday I was about to repurpose a browser tab when I realized it was the new month’s event calendar for the bookstore. Looking more closely, I saw there was about to be a piano concert there in three hours, at which my violinist friend Julia would be performing too! So I went. The concert was by a piano teacher named Alexis Gibbons; she performed works by Bach, Glass, Scarlatti, Ravel, and Rachmaninoff. Apparently her students had been doing their recitals at the bookstore for years (the piano is a very nice one, donated by a woman I’ve met whose stepson plays clarinet with the San Francisco Symphony), but this was her first appearance as featured artist.
I started thinking, hm, D’s clarinet teacher had two kinds of students, children and older adults. Maybe I should consider piano lessons? I do have a piano, which has been sitting here functioning as a photo display shelf for at least 20 years. It had been my grandma’s classroom piano – it was built somewhere Back East around 1905 and then shipped “round the Horn” to Oregon.
My conclusion was that maybe I should consider piano lessons, but if I might want to do that, first I should… move the computer and stuff on the floor so there’s room for the bench, relocate all the nice photos keeping me from opening the key lid, get out my old piano books, and see if I can make a habit of practicing scales and other music. For all I know, the repetitive strain injury in my right hand would complain! The piano probably needs tuning, too.
I started thinking, hm, D’s clarinet teacher had two kinds of students, children and older adults. Maybe I should consider piano lessons? I do have a piano, which has been sitting here functioning as a photo display shelf for at least 20 years. It had been my grandma’s classroom piano – it was built somewhere Back East around 1905 and then shipped “round the Horn” to Oregon.
My conclusion was that maybe I should consider piano lessons, but if I might want to do that, first I should… move the computer and stuff on the floor so there’s room for the bench, relocate all the nice photos keeping me from opening the key lid, get out my old piano books, and see if I can make a habit of practicing scales and other music. For all I know, the repetitive strain injury in my right hand would complain! The piano probably needs tuning, too.
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Date: 2026-03-03 11:50 am (UTC)And you have a piano, that's a good start. Maybe you can find a local piano tuner, wow. What an exciting thought. :)