I recently acquired this old Marshall and Wendell antique baby grand piano! Moving it to the house was very interesting – Jim’s Piano (local shop) did a fabulous job! It was pouring down rain when they pulled up to the home it was coming out of, but the rain subsided and we got it moved! I found out, it’s not cheap to MOVE a piano. In case you ever decide to take it on – my advice is to pay the money and be sure to hire a professional! It takes a special dolly and the expertise to maneuver legs coming off, etc. I was intrigued by watching the process.
As you can see, Callie has made herself at home. 🙂
What can I say, you can’t ever have too many piianos lying around the house! My husband’s going to shoot me when he gets back in town. I do own another antique piano pictured in the background on my home page, but this new old one is pretty neat. It’s well over 100 years old and apparently used to be a player piano. I wish I knew the history of the homes or establishments that this piano lived in all of these years. The person who gave it to me said it was given to her so there simply isn’t any history. The movers told me the body was in pretty good shape. It does need refinishing and although it plays okay, it needs some work. I had no idea that restoring a baby grand was so costly – believe it or not, it runs from $3,500 to $17K just to restore one of these! That being said, I’m probably going to let my new musical instrument simply be a conversation piece. I usually write my music on a little portable electric keyboard anyway, and I hope to start writing more with guitar. 
I’ve been working on a new song this week. 🙂
The title of this one just keeps presenting itself to me. It’s reallly strange…. I already have the song partially written and in going through a new box of Christian greeting cards today, I discovered that one of the cards had the title of my song on the last line of the sentiment! Pretty neat! I’m taking that as a sign this song needs to come to fruition. I say that because I have many many songs and pieces of songs that remain in journals and notebooks. It may take a little while to complete this one – i have to be in a creative mindset and it’s been a busy week at work with my real estate job. After all, I’ve got to support my music habit!
I’ll post my new song on this blog page when I’m finished so be on the lookout!