Saturday, March 19, 2011
Piano Tuning on a Rainy Day
After the move to Abingdon, Virginia, and now the move across this entire country, our dear old and still fabulous grand piano is due a good, long, caring check-up by a piano doctor! And this day, David Gordon, a recommended piano tuner, is at her side, paying close attention! David was suggested to us by a friend who has a gorgeous home in Noe Valley, Doug C.
It is pretty awful that we have not had her tuned or looked at in over 4 years, but by the time we let her settle into the Virginia living room, we had gotten so busy at our jobs that we totally forgot to look after her properly, barely having even the time to sit down and play her. But now, with already more actual playing going on, I will go no further until she is tuned and happy again. Peter is ecstatic. And I can almost hear the shiny ebony beauty purring!
I wrote a very long piece for my Writing Workshop about this piano, and am in the middle of deciding what to do with it...whether to send it out (not sure to where) or to post it here....but it is a bit of an homage, a rhapsody, if you'd like, about this traveling companion of mine, through all the years and the miles. It talks about all she has been witness to in my life, all she has gone through with me. All the drama, the fun, the music, the students she has helped....and now, she is in the piano "spa" being taken care of, and she deserves it. Looks like David Gordon is being very nice to her and doing all the important things to check her out....i've not heard any tuning going on yet...too much other stuff to check first, I imagine.
Peter's at the gym....it is another rainy SF day and I am sitting at my long writing table by my bedroom window......Lombard Street, ever the tourist mecca, seems deserted today, probably due to rain, yet, every now and then I see a determined tourist or two, heads covered in plastic rain hats, umbrellas aloft, trudging up our part of the hill, aiming for the summit, where the "crookedest street in the world" begins going down....at about where our wonderful apartment building is you can turn left onto Polk and descend down to Fisherman's Wharf, and the marvelous Ghirardelli Square, where such gorgeous chocolates live! All in all, our location is a perfect one. Interesting places all around us to walk to ....stunning scenery to see everywhere we look...and the view from the rood of this building is "killer" ...nearly 360 degrees of Bay, Bridge and sky...fabulous!
Later this evening we go to The Razz Room to hear jazz singer Amanda McBroom, and dinner before hand with pals at our favorite vegetarian Chinese place: The Golden Era on O'Farrell....another fine San Francisco evening! Even when we've had time to have some fun evenings, in the past few years, we were always too tired from work to go out ....and now we take as full advantage as we can of our schedules and our resources here....with gratitude.
So - the world goes 'round and Japan is beleaguered by its earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor problems that sadden us all....war looms between the USA and Libya and evil world leaders continue in their inexplicable ways toward more evil, and why that is ...well....the world goes 'round....i just live in it. Wish I had more answers, but for now, I don't, and so I'll have to get the joy where I can get it....
One place I definitely do get it is from writing, so...now that I am back on these pages....expect more from this little corner of the spinning globe.
xxev
It is pretty awful that we have not had her tuned or looked at in over 4 years, but by the time we let her settle into the Virginia living room, we had gotten so busy at our jobs that we totally forgot to look after her properly, barely having even the time to sit down and play her. But now, with already more actual playing going on, I will go no further until she is tuned and happy again. Peter is ecstatic. And I can almost hear the shiny ebony beauty purring!
I wrote a very long piece for my Writing Workshop about this piano, and am in the middle of deciding what to do with it...whether to send it out (not sure to where) or to post it here....but it is a bit of an homage, a rhapsody, if you'd like, about this traveling companion of mine, through all the years and the miles. It talks about all she has been witness to in my life, all she has gone through with me. All the drama, the fun, the music, the students she has helped....and now, she is in the piano "spa" being taken care of, and she deserves it. Looks like David Gordon is being very nice to her and doing all the important things to check her out....i've not heard any tuning going on yet...too much other stuff to check first, I imagine.
Peter's at the gym....it is another rainy SF day and I am sitting at my long writing table by my bedroom window......Lombard Street, ever the tourist mecca, seems deserted today, probably due to rain, yet, every now and then I see a determined tourist or two, heads covered in plastic rain hats, umbrellas aloft, trudging up our part of the hill, aiming for the summit, where the "crookedest street in the world" begins going down....at about where our wonderful apartment building is you can turn left onto Polk and descend down to Fisherman's Wharf, and the marvelous Ghirardelli Square, where such gorgeous chocolates live! All in all, our location is a perfect one. Interesting places all around us to walk to ....stunning scenery to see everywhere we look...and the view from the rood of this building is "killer" ...nearly 360 degrees of Bay, Bridge and sky...fabulous!
Later this evening we go to The Razz Room to hear jazz singer Amanda McBroom, and dinner before hand with pals at our favorite vegetarian Chinese place: The Golden Era on O'Farrell....another fine San Francisco evening! Even when we've had time to have some fun evenings, in the past few years, we were always too tired from work to go out ....and now we take as full advantage as we can of our schedules and our resources here....with gratitude.
So - the world goes 'round and Japan is beleaguered by its earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor problems that sadden us all....war looms between the USA and Libya and evil world leaders continue in their inexplicable ways toward more evil, and why that is ...well....the world goes 'round....i just live in it. Wish I had more answers, but for now, I don't, and so I'll have to get the joy where I can get it....
One place I definitely do get it is from writing, so...now that I am back on these pages....expect more from this little corner of the spinning globe.
xxev
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