This arrived on Wednesday afternoon, in “dark rosewood.” I immediately went MIA for the next 10 hours and reacquainted myself with Bach, Clementi, Mozart, Debussy, Richard Clayderman, Lionel Richie…
I can tell you that the capabilities of this instrument far, far exceeds what I’m able to do, invent, take advantage of, but the store that sold this has unlimited free “button-pushing” classes. I just might soon be able to bring some of those melodies (and occasional full-orchestral pieces) that write themselves in my head to life.
In the last couple of days, Mr. W’s daughter brought a new song she’d written and asked me to come up with a piano riff and/or accompaniment, and what I have so far, she loves. Mr. W downloaded and purchased programs for teaching piano to beginners, and has plugged the digitial piano to his computer and monitor and has been learning simple pieces on black keys. Mr. W’s son was over the day the piano was delivered and listened to me mess around with the various instrument voices available, making some popular love songs’ melody parts into saxophone or violin parts, while keeping piano accompaniment, and he said that if Mr. W’s learning programs work, he’d like to learn to play as well. So it’s a little something for everyone in the family!
Oh, wait…I do have one complaint…in that 1st day of 10-hour piano playing for me, I already wore the gold off the top of one of the pedals. Come on, Yamaha, I know you can use better paint than that!! I wasn’t even wearing shoes!