Music

I play the piano.  It is a measure on how I am fairing.  If I can sit down and play what I want, I am balanced.  Playing also helps me to slow down what is going on in the brain and focus.  I enjoy the challenge of increasingly difficult music.  I will never be great at playing, but that does not matter.

Music is important to many people.  It is a stress reliever, a memory maker, and entertainment.  Research shows the making music lights up many areas of the brain at once.  It is a way to help your child develop and students that sing or play and instrument generally do better in school. 

On the other end of the game music has a strengthening benefit to the adult mind.  I can help keep dementia in the older brain at a halt. 

I have always been an active music maker.  I sang nonstop as a child.  I practiced the song flute till I was silly and happily took up the clarinet at the end of 5th grade.  I gave that up in high school to take art, but I had learned the to ukulele  in junior high.  I saved my money and bought a guitar.  I played, sang and wrote songs all through college. 

I started to teach myself the piano in college on the dorm piano.  In my 30's we purchased my first piano.  I was seeking a $200 used piano, but my husband got involved and we purchased a baby grand.  I was not very good but play and played from then on.  We moved that piano 4 times. 

When moving to Florida we were going to split our time between two homes.  Last year a digital piano was purchased, the one you see above.  It was good because I could play using head phones, as my husband watched TV and was on the phone nonstop developing a real estate business.  Now I had a piano in both homes.

My husband knew piano playing was important to me.  A piano does not sit idle if I am around.  I felt loved and understood that he knew that a piano was important and a good investment.

I moved him into a quest room, and can now close the door.  I have not been really happy with the digital.  I swear the tone varies and I do have to reboot the thing as it starts sounding like a wet rag.  The piano salesmen  questions this.  I do know that even if my piano, up north, is out of tune it sounds better than the digital.  We happened on another piano show in Sam's by the same distributor.  My husband wanted to talk about how I am not totally happy with the digital and growl at it often. 

They called me a purist.  Maybe I am.  Next week I am getting an acoustic piano, The Piano Distributor is giving me 100% trade in for the new piano.  I think my husband is more excited than I am.  He does not play, but my being happy is important to him.