A friend just sent this to me -- seemed appropriate for the Old Piano discussion. by Howard Nemerov, past U.S. Poet Laureate To His Piano Old friend, patient of error as of accuracy, Ready to think the fingerings of thought, You but a scant year older than I am With my expectant mother expecting maybe An infant prodigy among her stars But getting only little me instead To see you standing there for six decades Containing chopsticks, Fur Elise, and The Art of Fugue in your burnished rosewood box, As well as all those years of silence and The stumbling beginnings the children made, Who would believe the twenty tons of stress Your gilded frame's kept stretched out all this while? Annie Grieshop www.allthingspiano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070525/748c5365/attachment.html
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