I was in a shopping mall last weekend and heard some beautiful piano music being played. It turned out to be the wife of a co-worker. She’s very good. She played a variety of songs fit for the season and did an excellent job.
The piano she was using was exactly like one she had grown up with. It was an upright model. When I grew up and learned how to play I used a more traditional style piano, but not a grand. I started taking lessons at age 4, and continued until I graduated from high school at age 18.
I admit to giving my parents and piano teacher fits every year. I hated the lessons even though I loved to play. The problem was that I really needed to practice each song and I was so jealous of those who could play by ear or only have to run through once or twice before they sounded like Mozart. I didn’t think it was fair. Everyone said I had a natural talent for it, a great sense of rhythm, but I still got stuck on notes and my fingers felt like they were detached from me sometimes.
I let my talent slip away for many years and am only now thinking about getting back into practicing more. It’ll take me a while to do it, but I think I may. We got an old piano at an auction that needs a good piano restoration job done, but that comes later. I’m not good at restoring furniture so hopefully my hubby can take care of it.
I sometimes wish I had spent more time practicing when I was little, but as they say, youth is wasted on the young. Shoulda coulda woulda. With two children of my own I wonder if I’ll take the time to learn again, or have them learn it?
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