06/17/2026
This beautiful article was written by a lady whose words give profound meaning to the subject at hand, enjoy reading like I did!!!
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I have had many pianos over my very long life, and I have been a real snob about what I am willing to play. Im not claiming that I am good at anything, only that when I hit a key on a real piano, the sound reverberates into my bones. That doesn't happen when I play on something that's plugged in. Sometimes you have to sacrifice substance for convenience. I get it. Just don't ask me to kiss it.
I came here because, two weeks ago, I bought a perfectly good Steinway at Goodwill for $99. It is over 100 years old, and inside the piano are long lists of when it was tuned, by whom, and where it lived. Many things have been replaced and repaired, seemingly with great love. I bought a Wurlitzer about 15 years ago, but while it was a good piano, I missed the sound of a Steinway (long story here). So I pretty much stopped playing. Now, in my older age, with body parts breaking down, I have been given a gift. This piano will be my roommate if I end up in a nursing home. I might be able to polish up the Brahms and Beethoven, maybe the Chopin and Prokofiev, a bit of Greig... and blindly play the Ave Maria my dad loved to hear, and the Somewhere My Love, that touched my mother.
The earliest date for tuning, that I could find, was 1941. I assumed the piano was about that old when I bought it.
I could not find anyone to take the Wurlitzer. I posted it as "free to a good home". My heart breaks to realize we are an IKEA society. No attachments. Everything must have a practical use or it is tossed.
A Steinway for $99 because nobody would buy it. Seriously?
That lower register brings tears to my eyes. Hand-crafted excellence.
Maybe it can keep it alive long enough, so when I'm gone, someone else will love it, talk to it, create heaven on earth through it.
I just needed to put this out here, so someone might want to reclaim humanity over some AI bu****it.
The struggle of "getting it right" will be lost forever if we don't deliberately keep analogues alive.
Peace to all of you.sk me to kiss it.
I came here because, two weeks ago, I bought a perfectly good Steinway at Goodwill for $99. It is over 100 years old, and inside the piano are long lists of when it was tuned, by whom, and where it lived. Many things have been replaced and repaired, seemingly with great love. I bought a Wurlitzer about 15 years ago, but while it was a good piano, I missed the sound of a Steinway (long story here). So I pretty much stopped playing. Now, in my older age, with body parts breaking down, I have been given a gift. This piano will be my roommate if I end up in a nursing home. I might be able to polish up the Brahms and Beethoven, maybe the Chopin and Prokofiev, a bit of Greig... and blindly play the Ave Maria my dad loved to hear, and the Somewhere My Love, that touched my mother.
The earliest date for tuning, that I could find, was 1941. I assumed the piano was about that old when I bought it.
I could not find anyone to take the Wurlitzer. I posted it as "free to a good home". My heart breaks to realize we are an IKEA society. No attachments. Everything must have a practical use or it is tossed.
A Steinway for $99 because nobody would buy it. Seriously?
That lower register brings tears to my eyes. Hand-crafted excellence.
Maybe it can keep it alive long enough, so when I'm gone, someone else will love it, talk to it, create heaven on earth through it.
I just needed to put this out here, so someone might want to reclaim humanity over some AI bu****it.
The struggle of "getting it right" will be lost forever if we don't deliberately keep analogues alive.
Peace to all of you.
