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a piano makes a terrible coffee table
by：GSH
2020-10-16
My baby grand piano has been in my house for longer than I have been alive.
When my husband and I bought our first suite on New Year\'s Eve six years ago, it was almost sitting in the same place as it is now: in front of the living room.
Piano by Kranich and Bach
The New York City company, which has collapsed, was once popular for its small grand piano known as the \"grandtie\", which belonged to the former owner of the House --
A family with three sons lived here for half a century.
Her husband told me that the wife played every day until she died.
It was her piano from an early age. When they got married, it was with her.
When I spoke to my husband, he was probably in his 90 s and lived in Florida and was no longer of any use.
His son has grown up, I think, and they have rejected the opportunity.
But I was moved by the legacy of this legendary instrument and its location in the home where we raised our children.
When we saw the house, it was the only furniture left.
It looked elegant standing there alone, there was nothing else in the room, not that big for me.
How can I get rid of things here for so many years?
Unlike me, my husband actually plays an instrument and he knows how to refuse.
\"The room is too big,\" he said . \".
But my husband saw a huge obstacle and I only saw romance.
I imagined our child, a toddler and a kindergarten kid, who was learning to play.
I imagine a house full of music, someone (
Not me, but someone)
Christmas carols are played during the festival.
Now that I am very persuasive, we keep it.
On the day of the move, two grumpy workers threw our blue sofa across from the piano, which was the only place to fit.
I sat on the sofa and stared at the sturdy legs that suddenly looked like a very tall object.
There is no room for our coffee table.
There are only two tables, an accent chair and our TV.
Of course my husband is right. It didn’t fit.
Over the next few years, I learned four truths about the baby grand piano. 1.
\"Baby\" is a special word choice for measuring objects nearly 5 feet long, 5 feet wide and 3 feet high. 2.
Baby Farm is a natural source of conversation between guests and they always tell you never to give up on you. (
This is especially true for those who do not actually own the baby grand piano. )3.
The baby\'s big piano makes a bad coffee table. 4.
When your son learns to play your wedding song on your wedding day, you forget all the complaints and stop listening to everything.
Soon after we settled down, I understood the real reason why a family gave up the piano: because the piano was worthless.
It turns out that Kranich and Bach make picky instruments that are hard to keep despite their rich sounds.
We need work.
We spent about $400 to fix it, and the tuner said the investment would buy us an instrument that would be decent enough for the students to live for about five years.
We soon found a teacher, a young Australian pianist whose passion inspired my son to practice and play. He was hooked.
There was a clumsy and clumsy learning sound in our house.
Along the way, he kept playing and changed the teacher to a Georgian woman with a strong Eastern European accent, who brought the passionate Russian composer into our home.
Then there were other instruments.
Our son\'s violin.
Guitar for our daughter. See! I was right.
Put an instrument in the middle of the room and someone will pick it up.
But as the years go by, more keys are broken.
More repairs are needed.
The children were growing up but there was no room.
The small space in the living room will only make you feel tighter.
The better my son is, the more he will be able to hear the piano making a nervous sound under his nimble fingers.
What used to be the object of his unwavering dedication turned into a source of frustration because the pedal would break and the key would get stuck.
We paid more for repairs and only more keys failed.
My husband and I began to envision another life for our living room, a life with enough furniture --
And a coffee table! —to entertain.
Maybe, I suggest to my son that we can get the piano to invest in something that is easier to manage.
Console or studio piano
For example, I always thought that the upright piano could sit against the wall and leave room for other furniture.
In the end, he also understood that it might be time to move on.
\"I want to run around,\" he concluded . \".
But things at home
Even if it is unlikely that you may inherit
What gives home life, which is why you become irrational attached to the item even if it doesn\'t make sense to keep it anymore.
Especially the piano, you can find allies in friends and family who inexplicably defend them.
Tell someone you want to break up with the piano and you might as well tell them that you plan on throwing a diamond in the trash can.
Even potential buyers were shocked by our decision.
At the beginning of December, we released the piano on the Facebook market, which is free to anyone who is willing to pay for the mobile piano.
Someone responded to the advertisement and simply said, \"You can\'t be serious. Free?
\"The first person to come to see it was a young jazz musician who told me I should keep it.
I told him we needed space.
He said his living room was smaller than ours and then, perhaps, realized the scale of his decision, was not accepted.
I was wondering if we made a mistake and felt guilty about a stranger giving up the piano and he couldn\'t appreciate the value of it as much as I did.
I put down the list, took out the tape measure and started working, looking for a way to make the piano fit better.
My husband was willing to appease me for the last time and patiently helped me to try out all possible arrangements.
But there is no reasonable configuration.
In a small family, rooms often offer more than one purpose.
I realized that our piano prevented us from using the central room in all the ways we needed to use it.
\"If a beautiful instrument belongs here, I won\'t give it away,\" My husband said . \".
\"But this is not.
The next afternoon, he and I went to a furniture store and booked a new sofa, an armchair and a coffee table (finally! ).
Next we will buy a second hand console or studio piano.
Luckily, our glendate items are back.
Order, will not arrive until early February, gave it six-week reprieve.
By that time, we will find it a new home, and ideally another student in this place can get more life from it.
I hope our piano will forgive us.
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When my husband and I bought our first suite on New Year\'s Eve six years ago, it was almost sitting in the same place as it is now: in front of the living room.
Piano by Kranich and Bach
The New York City company, which has collapsed, was once popular for its small grand piano known as the \"grandtie\", which belonged to the former owner of the House --
A family with three sons lived here for half a century.
Her husband told me that the wife played every day until she died.
It was her piano from an early age. When they got married, it was with her.
When I spoke to my husband, he was probably in his 90 s and lived in Florida and was no longer of any use.
His son has grown up, I think, and they have rejected the opportunity.
But I was moved by the legacy of this legendary instrument and its location in the home where we raised our children.
When we saw the house, it was the only furniture left.
It looked elegant standing there alone, there was nothing else in the room, not that big for me.
How can I get rid of things here for so many years?
Unlike me, my husband actually plays an instrument and he knows how to refuse.
\"The room is too big,\" he said . \".
But my husband saw a huge obstacle and I only saw romance.
I imagined our child, a toddler and a kindergarten kid, who was learning to play.
I imagine a house full of music, someone (
Not me, but someone)
Christmas carols are played during the festival.
Now that I am very persuasive, we keep it.
On the day of the move, two grumpy workers threw our blue sofa across from the piano, which was the only place to fit.
I sat on the sofa and stared at the sturdy legs that suddenly looked like a very tall object.
There is no room for our coffee table.
There are only two tables, an accent chair and our TV.
Of course my husband is right. It didn’t fit.
Over the next few years, I learned four truths about the baby grand piano. 1.
\"Baby\" is a special word choice for measuring objects nearly 5 feet long, 5 feet wide and 3 feet high. 2.
Baby Farm is a natural source of conversation between guests and they always tell you never to give up on you. (
This is especially true for those who do not actually own the baby grand piano. )3.
The baby\'s big piano makes a bad coffee table. 4.
When your son learns to play your wedding song on your wedding day, you forget all the complaints and stop listening to everything.
Soon after we settled down, I understood the real reason why a family gave up the piano: because the piano was worthless.
It turns out that Kranich and Bach make picky instruments that are hard to keep despite their rich sounds.
We need work.
We spent about $400 to fix it, and the tuner said the investment would buy us an instrument that would be decent enough for the students to live for about five years.
We soon found a teacher, a young Australian pianist whose passion inspired my son to practice and play. He was hooked.
There was a clumsy and clumsy learning sound in our house.
Along the way, he kept playing and changed the teacher to a Georgian woman with a strong Eastern European accent, who brought the passionate Russian composer into our home.
Then there were other instruments.
Our son\'s violin.
Guitar for our daughter. See! I was right.
Put an instrument in the middle of the room and someone will pick it up.
But as the years go by, more keys are broken.
More repairs are needed.
The children were growing up but there was no room.
The small space in the living room will only make you feel tighter.
The better my son is, the more he will be able to hear the piano making a nervous sound under his nimble fingers.
What used to be the object of his unwavering dedication turned into a source of frustration because the pedal would break and the key would get stuck.
We paid more for repairs and only more keys failed.
My husband and I began to envision another life for our living room, a life with enough furniture --
And a coffee table! —to entertain.
Maybe, I suggest to my son that we can get the piano to invest in something that is easier to manage.
Console or studio piano
For example, I always thought that the upright piano could sit against the wall and leave room for other furniture.
In the end, he also understood that it might be time to move on.
\"I want to run around,\" he concluded . \".
But things at home
Even if it is unlikely that you may inherit
What gives home life, which is why you become irrational attached to the item even if it doesn\'t make sense to keep it anymore.
Especially the piano, you can find allies in friends and family who inexplicably defend them.
Tell someone you want to break up with the piano and you might as well tell them that you plan on throwing a diamond in the trash can.
Even potential buyers were shocked by our decision.
At the beginning of December, we released the piano on the Facebook market, which is free to anyone who is willing to pay for the mobile piano.
Someone responded to the advertisement and simply said, \"You can\'t be serious. Free?
\"The first person to come to see it was a young jazz musician who told me I should keep it.
I told him we needed space.
He said his living room was smaller than ours and then, perhaps, realized the scale of his decision, was not accepted.
I was wondering if we made a mistake and felt guilty about a stranger giving up the piano and he couldn\'t appreciate the value of it as much as I did.
I put down the list, took out the tape measure and started working, looking for a way to make the piano fit better.
My husband was willing to appease me for the last time and patiently helped me to try out all possible arrangements.
But there is no reasonable configuration.
In a small family, rooms often offer more than one purpose.
I realized that our piano prevented us from using the central room in all the ways we needed to use it.
\"If a beautiful instrument belongs here, I won\'t give it away,\" My husband said . \".
\"But this is not.
The next afternoon, he and I went to a furniture store and booked a new sofa, an armchair and a coffee table (finally! ).
Next we will buy a second hand console or studio piano.
Luckily, our glendate items are back.
Order, will not arrive until early February, gave it six-week reprieve.
By that time, we will find it a new home, and ideally another student in this place can get more life from it.
I hope our piano will forgive us.
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