There was a vintage piano parked on the side of the road of my neighbor’s home, obviously waiting for the trash truck to come and pick it up.
I couldn’t help but find myself fascinated with it, and playing the keys.
I could see why they would want to throw it away, the previously white keys were faded yellow, and the once sweet melody it played was out of tune. It had a few other issues, like one of the pedals being broken, and a couple of hammers it was missing. While I knew I could always find a much better quality piano online, why waste a good piano, especially one right next to my home? It killed me to think that someone was going to try to throw this away, especially since it was so old. I didn’t have a place for it in my home, so I brought it into the garage. The first step to repairing the piano was to have it tuned. Thankfully my area was filled with piano tuners and so finding one wasn’t that difficult. As much as I enjoyed playing the piano in my free time, doing it in the garage was difficult because of how overheated it was. My home was great air conditioning wise, but in the garage, I didn’t have A/C. I still didn’t have room for the piano in my home, but I planned on when I got my next house, bringing the piano in one of the rooms, so that way I have access to the HVAC machine and cooling breeze and can play for hours without being distracted worrying about how the garage felt like a furnace.