And the Piano Came Home

After getting the dust to settle around the house in all our moving things around.  Our piano finally "came home".  It took us a while to figure out the best location in the room, but we are pretty happy with the results.  We started by taking pictures of the room from various angles...

 Then it finally hit us...and horray it fits and it's really really nice

 With room to spare!

Then I was able to unpack my boxes

 And clean up under the cabinet

And the kids were very anxious to be on it again!

Jennifer's 7'4" Baby

This story has nothing to do with Hyrum, but more the introduction to my next baby that came 7 1/2 foot long. This story will also explain how I came up with the name of the blog.

6/7/2008

Well, John got me good. Our living room is no longer! There is now a beautiful black beauty that currently takes up 90% of our front room!

Before Hyrum went into the hospital, we were looking at pianos. We decided to stop looking as the day for surgery approached and the stress of looking became unbearable even though I had found a piano beyond words, we had decided to pass on it anyway.

John knowing that I already loved this piano and found that the chances of coming across anything similar were slim to none, and with a buyer flying in from Texas on Wednesday took it upon himself to work with the dealer and make all the arrangements. The piano movers left the house about the time I left the hospital to come home. Talk about him cutting it close!
I had NO knowledge of anything that John had been doing all week long. So when I arrived home...I was VERY shocked!!! I cried for about 10 min. all the while the camcorder sitting on the table in the kitchen was recording. Later when I watched the recording I cried again! It was an extremely pleasant surprise.

So for those who don't know pianos, we bought a 7'4" Grotrian that was 20 years old. Pianos are broken down in classifications 1 through 4. With over 70% of the pianos in category 4, about 20% in category 3, about 9% in category 2 and about 1% in category 1.

Category 1 has the likes of Steinway & Sons New York at the bottom of the category 1, Bossendorf somewhere near the top with Grotrian in between. Yeah, a piano that is better than a Steinway & Sons New York! Cool!!!