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You mean to say that I could do things that weren’t some kind of side hustle or attempt at social media clout? I could do something that was … just for me? After a few painful renditions of “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” I gave up, and the piano sat, mostly untouched, in the corner of my office for the next couple of years.īesides, I was too busy to take up an actual hobby the idea of having a hobby - something I did just for the enjoyment it brought me - seemed almost confusing. … Really, our potential was endless.īut I was rusty - very rusty - and I’d been classically trained, which meant I was more comfortable reading music than just jamming. Matt collects guitars and will often just pick one up and start strumming the Beatles I think he had it in his head that once I had a piano, we would be able to duet, like other famed husband-and-wife duos such as Sonny and Cher, John and Yoko, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. I bought some sheet music - some classical stuff that seemed around the same level I was at when I’d stopped playing, and a book of “easy” rock and pop songs. At Guitar Center, we found one that seemed, well, perfect. Still, when he suggested we go to a music store just to look, I agreed. He reminded me that I’d idly mentioned wanting to play the piano again, but to me, I’d brought it up in the same way that I might casually say I wanted to try skydiving, which is to say it was something I would never actually follow through on.
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I was game for a digital piano, but skeptical - it was a really extravagant gift, and I wasn’t sure I was actually going to play it that often. Matt knew that I had taken piano lessons as a kid, but I’d stopped in seventh grade, right around the age when the idea of spending Saturday mornings at music school started to feel less appealing than, say, going to the mall.
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A digital piano is like a keyboard, except the keys are weighted and it feels more like playing a real piano than the Casio you might have had in the corner of your bedroom as a teenager. Part of the Leisure Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.Ī few years ago, my husband Matt offered to get me a digital piano for my 41st birthday.