On August 23, 1898, upon Mamma Truman’s suggestion, Harry’s father made his first fifty-dollar payment on a piano. It was a W. W. Kimball purchased on credit from a music store in Kansas City, and getting it home to Independence was a chore. Harry was drawn to the instrument. He began traveling into Kansas City twice a week for lessons. Most days his brother and sister would awake before sunrise to the sound of his fingers on the keys.
