The Cottage on the Hill

"La Seine" Vanessa Paradis and -M-.

Yep, that's apparently what my piano is, at least according to the piano tuner. He's a fine man who begged me not to put any more money into the piano and said if he ever comes across a good spinet, he'd give me a call. Apparently, what I have is, as I stated, a noisy credenza. I'm not discouraged, or even embarrassed. I sat at my dining room table penning a letter when he completed tuning the piano, and then he played. My house, my little cottage, was filled with real, live piano music! I can check another dream off my list of dreams! To him it was rubbish. To me it was a dream come true! As he pulled out of the driveway, I sat at the piano and playing a simple rendition of the same stanzas of Pachelbel's Cannon in D, about the only thing I know how to play. My 5 year old LOVES the piano. He'll sit at it for a good 45 minutes to an hour just plunking out his own little tunes and listening to all the notes and note combinations.

I finally have a piano!! It isn't much, just an old 1920's Starr Spinet, but it's mine! Already, my children have tried it out even though it hasn't been tuned in over a decade! It's still beautiful music, even if it isn't Liszt. Oddly enough, my 5 year old started playing something that sounded like "Alexander's Ragtime Band!" LOL!