@Anna9170
Anna, I could fill a substantial book with lovely guest stories!
I had a couple from another state book to stay here for one evening. They belonged to an international service club, Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary....one of those, I can't remember which one. They had a 67 year old Japanese woman with them who had come out to Australia as part of an exchange program, they had taken her into the Aussie outback and wanted to break their trip home with a night here.
It was a lovely warm evening outside we all sat and had a few drinks and a few cheeses as is the custom around this place, and the conversation got around to the fact that I had a piano in my mancave!
A mancave is men's domain.....it is a shed at the back of the house block 30 metres away from the main house, strictly my world with all my things in it. Women don't just 'come' in here....they get an invite!!
Back to the Piano........
My wife Ade has never particularly taken to it! She was a classical pianist and got her 'letters' from the conservatorium ....she says this instrument is 'plastic music' because it doesn't have hammers and strings. But it has properly weighted keys, is digitally recorded from a concert grand and it has exactly the same touch, feel and sound as a Steinway concert grand.
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On hearing this the Japanese woman, (whose English was poor) asked to see the 'piano'......she came in here sat down at this thing and was 'hands down' the best jazz pianist I have ever heard. God, she played all the great jazz classics, we ordered Indian take away, drank long into the night and had one of the best nights I can ever remember!
How good is that?
Cheers.......Rob