Today, I helped my friend, Bill, move a piano.

[evlbstrd]

Only the piano was injured.
That's the third time I've moved a damn piano. And I have one in my house I don't really need.
Anybody interested in an upright grand tuned for boogie woogie?

[GrumpyGreg]

1. God almighty--that's the hardest job there is. There is a piano

moving company in the Boston area called "Death Wish Movers'

[evlbstrd]

3. They're very aptly named.

We had moved it from the inside of his house to the porch many months ago. Today, it was down the porch steps to the curb. The city will pick it up this week. It really was a mess.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. My parents bought a house with an upright piano in the basement

First my mom paid movers to move it upstairs.

Then 30 years later, she paid movers to get it out of the house.

And she wasn't even senile yet.

[evlbstrd]

4. So what's my excuse?

At least mine isn't in the basement. And it's painted all Mardi Gras. It needs some work.
Do you remember Rich Hill? It was his "house piano" on 39th St. for a while. You haven't been able to see it because I have sheetrock and plywood stacked up in front of it.

edit for punctuation. dammit.

[bleedingheart]

30. I bought a piano from a woman who couldn't get rid of it

because few people know how to play a piano.

It is an upright in mint condition....

I bought it for my son after he had passed the one year mark in piano lessons...his electronic keyboard just wouldn't cut it...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Sorry, my dear evlbstrd.........

We do not need, nor do we have the room for, another piano......

Ours is a parlor grand by Kuwai........and it sounds wonderful...

I wish you could hear my husband play boogie-woogie on it......

Good luck finding a new home for yours!


:loveya: :hug:

[evlbstrd]

6. It must be fun to listen to him.

Alas, nobody here plays. It was given to us when a restaurant/club went out of business. All it ever did was hold stuff and take abuse from children. The poor thing didn't deserve it. I'd give it freely to someone who'd heal and care for it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. It is fun listening to him......

It was one of the reasons I married him!

I don't play either, alas.....

I hope you find a good home for yours!


:loveya: :pals:

[evlbstrd]

9. I'll try.

The keys that still work sound good!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. ....

"The keys that still work"

:rofl:

[evlbstrd]

16. Yeah, that's a great selling point, isn't it?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

19. You could base an infomercial off it.

;)

[evlbstrd]

26. Not if I have to wear one of those gawdawful sweaters!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

29. ...

:rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. Poor piano.

:D

[evlbstrd]

13. It really was a sad thing.

But it was way beyond repair. I'd hate to kill a musical instrument.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

21. I get sentimentally attached to instruments.

Pianos, guitars, saxes, clarinets...you name it and I can't bear to hurt it. It becomes like a member of my family. Fuck, I even have this old recorder I can't bear to throw out, or even give away....and it barely even plays.

Kooky me....

:D

[evlbstrd]

24. They're extensions of our bodies and minds.

They are like living things in the right hands.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

28. When you make music your body just becomes

a conduit for your soul's energy. It directs it right into the instrument.

Woooooo, spiritualistic me.....

:silly:

[evlbstrd]

31. That's what I'm told by actual musicians.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

32. Well, I've hung around actual musicians.

And I try to be all musical/spiritual/artistic. I write, actually, which is much of the same--similar sensation to when I play the 88s or my clarinet or my sax. But yet they're still somehow just a tad different, in a good way.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. If it wasn't an upright

I might consider it.

Remember my friend Johnalita? She plays piano (and quite well I might add). I will ask her if she knows anyone looking for a piano.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Peg, you're so lucky.

I'd kill for a grand. Unfortunately, my parents would kill me before paying for one. Someday, someday....

I love to hear boogie-woogie on any piano. You're a lucky lady.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Thank you; I know I am!

But we didn't have it till our children were in their teens!

For MANY MANY years, he played on an upright also.....

It is so much fun to hear him playing! He also plays classical and jazz...

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

18. ...

Again, I'll say it; you're LUCKY. Jazz, classical, boogie woogie... anything else we ought to know about?? ;) ;)

Is your hubby a professional pianist, or is it just a hobby for him? Pianists are cool people, man, cool people...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Well! Thank you again!

No, I think I've told you all about his piano playing abilities!

He plays for fun only; he's not professional. Although......there have been times when other people think he is!

In hotel lobbies and places like that, folks have come up to ask him if he's professional....

And ONE TIME, a very long time ago: We were in a pizza place where there was a band playing. With a piano. Well, when the band went on break, he asked if he could play the piano till they came back. Of course: yes. So when the band returned, they asked him to jam with them. I was so proud...

40 years married now....and it's great!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. That is really cool.

I can bet you were proud of him to see him jam. I'd be proud.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Fuck, man; an upright grand???

You make me too effing jealous, evl.

To pianists everywhere.... :toast:

[evlbstrd]

15. You want it?

It's worth repairing. I don't want money for it, but I can't ship it, either.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. Nah; I already got a piano.

A tiny little spinnet that needs tuning twice as often as a normal 88-er. I was just commenting on my brief flare of jealousy.

:D

[evlbstrd]

25. I like the sound of a Spinet.

Almost like a toy piano.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. Yeah, you could say that.

:D