One of the funniest things that ever happened to me when I was teaching a piano lesson was a couple of years ago when Hayden as a dreamy, inventive ten year old said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if somebody made a piano that had a machine on it, that you could put in a disk and punch a button then it would play by itself, and the keys would go down with every note that would play?” I was incredulous at my good fortune. “You mean like this?” I turned a machine under my piano on, pushed in a disk, punched a button, the piano started to play itself and the keys went down with every note that played. Hayden’s expression at my response to his far-out imaginative flight was elevating! I don’t usually find myself laughing at students, but this was too much for me, and he was too astonished to laugh with me at first!
Oh my goodness, that is TOO FUNNY! :-) I love it! I love your blog too, and I am bummed that we missed you last time you were here! Thanks for commenting on mine, that was such a treat to get tonight. And, yes, Chopin, my fav composer. I love that Ballade, it was great to listen to it!
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