#stories - the piano pedal and the puppy

My grandmother had a beautiful ornate walnut piano with ivory keys she cleaned using saucers of milk and rags.
i remember the smell and slight stickiness when I sat as a child, with wide eyes glued to the music on a very high velvet piano stool, making up stories and tunes about the puppy dog i found on the pages.
Years later I learned it was the sign for the pedal but in my mind it will always be a puppy curled up!

my grandmother had a beautiful ornate walnut piano
with ivory keys she cleaned with milk
saucers of milk and rags
I remember the smell and slight stickiness
when i sat
as a child
with
wide eyes glued to the music
on a very high up velvet piano stool
making up stories and tunes
about the puppy dog i found on the pages
years later I learned it was the sign for the pedal
but in my mind it will always be a puppy curled up!

First appeared in The View from Markson Pianos
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

#25 Jan Pulsford, Composer, Musician, Songwriter, Keyboardist

https://themarksonpianos.blogspot.com/2013/04/24-jan-pulsford-composer-musician.html