[pianotech] priorities

[Noah Frere]

that's cool, though i suspect they will have more furniture by the time you
return.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:05 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote:

> Yesterday I tuned a 50 year old Wurltizer spinet and a 75 year old Winter
> grand, both is the same home. Both needed a lot of work, but what's so
> unique about these two pianos, is that they sit next to each other in the
> living room,  and they are the only pieces of furniture in the whole place.
> It's a rather small apartment of a Chinese family who have only been in
> Hawaii a few months, but there is no other stick of furniture in the whole
> place. There is no TV, no desk, no chairs, no tables, nothing. I was able to
> glance in the two bedrooms to see only mattresses on the floor. I learned
> from the teenage son, who was the interpreter for the family, that he, his
> dad and his younger sister, all play the piano. They left a Kawai studio
> back in China.
>
> While I was working on the pianos, the teenager stood at the kitchen
> counter reading a book, the younger sister sat on the floor watching a
> Disney movie on a lap top, and the father and mother tried to keep a 5 year
> old boy out of my tool kit. I don't know why they are here, other than the
> teen eager said he's here to go to school.
>
> I guess for some families, having two pianos is more important than a
> dining room table, a couch, much less a big screen TV.
>
> Wim
>
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