Comments on: Further Up and Further In

By: kate

kate — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:42:28 +0000

Lisa! That is awesome. I sent to Ben and he said he knows the song but had forgotten that part of the lyrics! Thank you.

Baersmom- We are fortunate in the layout of our building. We’re on the top floor and share our wing of the U-Shaped building with one other apartment. Our neighbor’s hallway is against our dining room wall, he says he doesn’t hear the piano. The only person who does is our downstairs neighbor, and she said she feels sad when she doesn’t get her little dinnertime concert! Ben plays really well and usually for a max of 45-60 minutes, around dinnertime, so it seems we’re not a nuisance, thank goodness.

By: baersmom

baersmom — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:32:04 +0000

this is a little late, but as fellow musician in an old-Cambridge 3-family, I have to ask: how do you deal with the noise from the piano and neighbors?

you have a beautiful home!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:38:03 +0000

“Fine way to move a Steinway” is from the song “I Love a Piano” by Irving Berlin:

I love a piano, I love a piano
I love to hear somebody play
Upon a piano, a grand piano
It simply carries me away

I know a fine way to treat a Steinway
I love to run my fingers ‘oer the keys, the ivories

And with the pedal I love to meddle
When Padarewski comes this way
I’m so delighted if I’m invited
To hear that long haired genius play

So you can keep your fiddle and your bow
Give me a p-i-a-n-o, oh, oh
I love to stop right beside an upright
Or a high toned baby grand

🙂

By: kate

kate — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:58:24 +0000

😀

Thank you for the compliments, especially you boys… Mr. Elegant, you will love having the piano, and I think if the lessons are talked about as an exciting new thing to do with mom, it can be a joy instead of drudgery. Ben definitely found what he loved to play early on and focused on that.

Xander- One of these days you’re going to have to move to temperate climes, where these old-fashioned buildings can be yours! An oven, too.

Michelle, it went so fast I didn’t have as much of a chance to freak out as I was worried I would. Up the stairs would have been far worse!

By: Xander

Xander — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:56:41 +0000

This is completely unrelated to the piano, but I am so envious of your apartment. The brick building, lovely windows, floor to ceiling bookshelves. So sweet. -X

By: Easy and Elegant Life

Easy and Elegant Life — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:22:44 +0000

You are living a wonderful movie.

Waiting to get the upright from my Mom’s house. It was shipped to them through the Panama Canal when we were stationed there in the 60’s. Then Mrs. E. will arrange music lessons for my daughter and herself. I hope to one day hear the strains of a little Cole Porter while I finish the dinner trays.

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:47:45 +0000

Wow – I don’t even think I could watch them put that in.
When we had our couch disassembled & reassembled I couldn’t be in the same room.
I get way too stressed.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:25:31 +0000

Lovely!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:07:48 +0000

This made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Many thanks for exposing some domestic bliss; the idea of piano playing and the sounds and smells of cooking… it fits.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:34:47 +0000

Great photo essay, KFGR! This photo made my heart skip a beat:
http://tinyurl.com/4ym3ya

Congratulations, & I can’t wait to hear it live.

moi, AKA Dad