Story of the Day

As I drove by the piano shop tonight I noticed several people moving a piano into the shop from a rental truck. I guess they were moving it back in. It was after 10 pm so I didn't think it was being taken in for repairs (you know, like the horizontal hold was off?). It was obvious they were taking it in and not out. The overhead door at the rear of their truck was closed. I wonder where it had come from.

It was a grand piano and had probably been used in a performance somewhere around here. What kind of a performance was it? Had the piano been used for acompanyment at an early recital? Maybe the pianist was the star. Had Chopin or Haydn or Liszt been played on it? Or perhaps some transcribed Bach or Mousorgsky. I won't ask who could tell because I know someone could tell me. Someone could probably tell me even where the sheet music, if such was used, had come from. All I have to do to find out is go back to the piano shop tomorrow when they are open. That would be easy enough. But, I won't do it.

I won't go to the shop and start asking questions. Why not? I guess it is not that important to me. I don't feel the need to know where that particular grand piano had been used. It is just interesting to speculate. Sometimes knowing the truth is not as much fun as wondering.

January 31, 1996

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