piano farewell

This really hit home – a CBC story about what to do with old pianos. Last year we gave away my late mum's prized possession. The instrument was one of few luxuries she allowed herself. She played, and my brother and I took lessons. My elderly parents left it behind when they downsized. We bought an electric and my mother’s sat unused. When it was time to move, taking it to our new house was out of the question, so we put it online for free. Even at zero dollars, it wasn’t an easy sell. After a lot of messages and phone calls a guy took it for his mother-in-law to play religious songs. As he left, he handed me some fundamentalist nonsense which I was happy to take because he took the piano. There's no lesson here really. There will still be a market for high end pianos in concert halls and such but, when it comes to people's living rooms, technology rules. By the way, I checked today. There are about two dozen free pianos listed on Facebook Marketplace in my hometown of Calgary.