Show and Tell

A year or so after I bought my first house I started looking for a piano. I always had a piano around growing up and started taking lessons from my grandmother when I was six year old. In my mind, a home wasn't complete without a piano.

Being a first time home owner, and just a year out of pharmacy school, I really couldn't afford much. So, I started checking out the want ads in the local paper. I found someone selling an old piano for $75. I called and went to check it out. It wasn't in great shape, but it had a nice sound and I felt it could be tuned up and cleaned up. It cost $200 to have it moved to my house.

When Amazing Daddy and I got engaged and I moved to Philadelphia to be with him the piano went in to storage until we bought our house. I was so happy when the moving trucks arrived with it (and all my other stuff too, it had been 16 months since it all went in storage). I was fortunate to have a little extra money at that time, and was able to get it tuned and restored a bit. In the process I found out a little more about it.

It turned out it is a Cable-Nelson piano. It was likely built in South Haven, MI in the early-ish 1900's. It's serial number is 104485 if I'm reading the faded handwriting correctly.

I don't have much time to play these days, and its been years since I took lessons, but I still feel like a home, my home anyway, isn't complete without a piano.

Sometimes I get the urge and I sit down and just play. Usually, when no one is around to hear, because I'm so out of practice. It makes me happy and it reminds me of my grandmother.