Status Updates From The Piano Shop on the Left ...

In this chapter, Thad told a funny story about how he was basically forced into playing in the church's choir, and the director was insane. He got a cut in his finger from some sport, and when he was playing the piano, his cut started bleeding and he bled all over the piano, and the director went insane. It was quite an entertaining story!

In this chapter, Thad spent the whole time describing how he piano works. It kind of dragged on at times, but it was nice to see how truly passionate he was about this instrument he used to know nothing about.

Thad talks for a bit about how he gets very nervous every when he performed in recitals, asking himself "do I know this piece?" or "how does it go?" I can definitely relate. Whoever I play in recitals, I get very nervous and think that I forgot the piece, but, like Thad, I never do forget it. (C)

Luc found a piano that he wants for himself, which is unusual because he normally focuses on getting other people pianos. The piano he wants is very rare, but is too big to fit inside his house. The link attached is a picture of that piano. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/... (s,v)

"I found it tremendously satisfying to press these black and white strips of wood with my fingers, or even to smash them with my fists. Something then happened 'inside' and out came strange sounds, bright and unexpected, and sometimes amazingly loud." I love this quote because I feel the same way when I play the piano.(F, C)

Thad's wife was slightly surprised that he wanted to buy a piano, and his kids aren't super excited about it, so I'm guessing that it might cause some problems in the family. (I)

The author makes it seem like the piano is a person and has feelings like people. “I better understood how for him a piano could suffer a kind of death, even though it was wholly intact and technically maintained.” I like this quote because I also feel sad for the piano when it is not played as often as it should be.

I noticed the author, Thad, enjoys being around pianos more than people. His descriptions of people throughout the first chapter are quick and brushed aside, whereas the descriptions of the pianos are whimsical and lovely and vivid.

Near the end of the chapter, the author writes, "But I was unaware of the powerful seduction conjured by this workshop. It had pulled me in. When I thought I was merely a browser delighting in the improbable number and variety of old pianos, in fact I had succumbed to a voluptuous fantasy before I could guard against it." This quote gives the reader such an eloquent description of how Thad is feeling.

In the first chapter, Thad comes across a piano repair shop on his way to and from his children's school, and it strikes his curiosity. He soon discovers that the piano repair shop is also an undercover shop where one could buy a used piano. The author does a great job of instilling the same curiosity and intrigue Thad has into the reader.

In the first chapter, Thad comes across a piano repair shop on his way to and from his children's school, and it strikes his curiosity. He soon discovers that the piano repair shop is also an undercover shop where one could buy a used piano. The author does a great job of instilling the same curiosity and intrigue Thad has into the reader.