Betsy Bailey

Over the weekend we bought a piano! It's just a digital piano – not an acoustic one – but it certainly works the same way! The keys are even weighted to feel like an acoustic piano.

Digital piano

Anyway, I can't really play – I had very basic intro lessons from my grandma (organist) when I was a kid, but I didn't advance very far. I loved to play it and did so often, but I didn't learn much beyond simple melodies that I played with one hand only. My interest is revived though! I've been doing some self-teaching from a book since we got this on Saturday, but I think I might even take some lessons for a little more structured guidance.

We'll see what we can afford for MY lessons after we determine how many kid lessons we need to cover. Hopefully we can get some kind of group rate.

Apparently at least HM and Mir are very musically talented. Their music teacher actually showed up for HM's parent teacher conference last week just to tell me that. I'd been thinking about getting a piano lately anyhow, but that news definitely motivated me to action sooner vs. later.

Mir is very interested in piano lessons – curious to see how she fares. Ironically, she's the most organized and disciplined of all the kids in our household.

HM said she would prefer to learn the trumpet (and that's the instrument she plans on learning in band next year), but we'll see if she doesn't change her mind about piano lessons once she sees we actually HAVE a piano in our house. (The girls are in OH for the first week of their fall break, so they will be surprised when they come home.)

I have no idea about B's interest/aptitude. And plus we're paying for riding lessons for her right now – we can only afford so much eek. I like how having a piano in the house makes learning music so accessible, though! A is taking guitar lessons right now and says that's enough for him. But we'll see.

Stay tuned! (har)

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