So about that piano....

I really like how I say I'll post about the piano "later this week" and, two months later, here the post finally is! I don't know why its so late...it isn't like I have anything else going on in my life, right?

OKay, so the story about the piano---because its a really great story!--it was FREE! I am on the Salina Freecycle site, so I get all these emails about people looking for things or giving things away, and everything that is posted on it has to be free. So I check one day and someone had sent an email for a free piano, and I emailed the lady back to see if it was still available and it was. We drove out to look at it, and the store on the piano is that they were moving to Omaha, and didn't want to have to move the piano, so they figured they'd just leave it in Salina. They got the piano for free, so they thought they'd pay it forward, I guess, and give it away too.

The piano is originally from a church in Chapman, Kansas, which had a tornado go through it in June of 2008 and destroy about 80% of the town. Three churches, including the one where the piano is originally from, were destroyed. So, needless to say, the piano is pretty beat up, lots of dings and scratches, the key cover needs to be fixed, and the ivory from the top of one of the keys is missing, but other than that its in really good shape!

Bells standing on a box to reach the keys: the piano may have made it through the tornado, but the bench was destroyed. Kind of weird, isn't it? So we need to get a bench of some sort for it. I'm thinking about getting a big black leather storage ottoman and putting legs on it instead of getting a traditional piano bench. Then we'd have storage and a bench.

I really love this piano. I don't think we could have found a better match for our decor. Aren't the black laquer accents around the edges cool? I've never seen a piano like this before.

"Hey Brian, lets take a picture of the kids in front of the new piano!"

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3

Ah! Take 4. Finally :)