The New Piano

Piano 1
Originally uploaded by shornbare.

Note the bad posture of the amateur piano player (and Glen Gould wannabes)

New Piano

Last Thursday saw a new arrival in our household. A Roland digital piano. 'The Rolls-Royce of digital pianos' the salesman assured us. And he could be right. Mum and Dad, concerned that they were favouring Helen and Rupert by buying them digital pianos for their wedding presents, finally sat down and did some maths and figured that they'd better buy me one now. So when they were over here we went off to the piano shop one rainy morning. The salesman entertained us for an hour or so and in the end I was left with a choice of two. The most popular model, or the best model. I took the best.

Five weeks later and it is finally here. But what to play first? The beginning bit from the Koln concert by Keith Jarrett? The Moonlight Sonata? Ain't Misbehaving? Imagine? That's where my repertoire ends so it wasn't really a difficult choice. Ain't Misbehaving.

And now I'm busy filling in the hazy bits of the songs I think I know, and discovering new songs to play. I'm currently working on Debussy's Claire de Lune. After a week of playing I've got the point where I'm hearing funny buzzes in the piano; little imperfections in the Rolls-Royce... or is it me? But the piano fingers are slowly coming back, and hopefully they'll be around for good this time.