I didn’t think this day would really come. Nevermind this soon.
It was something I always talked about. One of those things that would come up in conversation or in passing where my answer would be “Yeah, someday I’ll get one, when I have a home of my own or something.”
The timing seemed to good to be true. Sitting around a poker table with friends and my soon to be Roomates come the end of June, I look over to this large vacant “mini living room” and make a passing comment: “Wow, a piano would really go great there.” To my surprise I look up to see my friend Will (who owns the place I’m moving to) reply by saying “That’d be fine with me.” After long discussions and making sure with the guys that it would “OK to have such a beast in the house”, I actually started looking around for one.
So in my second day of really looking (having visited a few piano stores the day prior), I happen to search on Craigslist and within minutes, come across an amazing piano that seemed too good to be true. The same brand on which I was taught how to play the style of music I now write, a Kawai. Not only that, but for such a great price I was certain soemthing was wrong with it.
I couldn’t have been more incorrect. I contacted the owner’s, who invited me to their home the next day to try it out. After playing it I fell in love, and then today, after playing it again after it was just tuned, I could barely sign a purchase agreement fast enough.
For those curious, it is a 1996 K.Kawai RX-2 5′10 Grand Piano.
I’ll cherish this thing for the rest of my life. For over 6 years now, I’ve relied on a digital piano. Anytime I’ve ever sat at an acoustic piano, something always felt “weird”…like I had to relearn the instrument since I was so used to plastic keys and a tiny little sustain pedal. But now, I’ll be able to experience what I’ve always wanted, an acoustic piano of my own that I can play whenever I want.
Now all I need to do is wait until the end of June when I move to my new place to have it with me!
A big thank you to my future roomates, to the owner’s who were so kind and genuinely wanted me to have it, and to my parents and brother who felt this is something I’ve deserved for a long time. I feel unbelivably lucky to be able to have such a “dream” actually come true sooner that I ever thought it would.
-Jonathan
