And now -- thanks to the generous passing along of a family piano from my friend Laurie's house to ours -- there is almost always music playing here (generally "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", but you've got to start somewhere.)
And to get it here, we invited four really good friends (and their wives and kids) over for beer, and Mexican food, less than two weeks after we got back. With a bit of trepidation (we are all far from our 20-something years, when you did foolish things like this all the time), John and the guys headed to Laurie's to pick it up. This is what they looked like coming in:
After getting it down the stairs (only one small dent in the drywall), this is what it looks like in its new home:
And here were some of the kids, watching their amazing dads with delight:
We love it. We had the piano tuner from the university come over to tune it last week, and he said it is more than 100 years old and is in remarkably great shape. Here he is taking it apart (and he noted that for future moving parties, we might be wise to remove 150 pounds worth of wood panels that can easily come off the front and top! Nice to know, Mr. Piano-Tuner.)
And here is 10-year warranty that is still easily found in golden lettering on the inside of the top. Nice to have a product that outlasted its warranty by almost a century!
The kids will start lessons this fall, I think, and in the meantime, Grandma Judy has been teaching them a thing or two. We love all of this music in our house -- and we couldn't have done it without good friends. Thanks!
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