On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:05 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 > I have been in a few homes that are similar, not to the extreme you describe but one comes to mind. I have a music prof at the local State University who has a Harpisichord, pump organ, violin of some quality, Stereo & large sound system & a Chickering upright, No other furniture save a couple of benches & kitchen chairs. Mike -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100720/7a90bd5d/attachment.htm>
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