{"id":1517,"date":"2013-10-22T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2020-08-20T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:40:46","slug":"no-piano-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1517","title":{"rendered":"No Piano in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pianodectomy&#8221;? Piano-sectomy? -nectomy? -ectomy? What <i>do<\/i> you call the removal of the parts of yourself <!--more--> consisting of keyboard, soundboard, hammers, strings, and so forth? I could still sing\u2014without accompaniment\u2014but felt incomplete for the two days till the rental instrument arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Of course things still feel weird. The rental isn&#8217;t <i>my<\/i> piano, that&#8217;s seen me through so much learning, teaching and performance-prep. No, even if you offered me a concert-grand, my connection to my own piano is just too&#8230;. I remember when I bought it, in February, 1968. &#8220;You could get a lot more than you&#8217;re asking,&#8221; I told the lady in Beverly Hills. &#8220;I know that,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but I just want to be sure it has a good home.&#8221; I promised I would give it a good home. She was the first owner. So you can understand why I couldn&#8217;t even <i>consider<\/i>&#8230;. Well&#8230;. I suppose I could <i>try<\/i> a concert-grand for a few days&#8230;. I mean, I&#8217;ve played lots of them, but never in the house&#8230;. You can understand my wanting to try it, right? <i>Anyone<\/i>, any pianist, might&#8230;. And it would be a valuable experiment! An acoustic experiment. I wonder what it would sound like&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;pianectomists&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"329\" height=\"441\" src=\"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pianodectomy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1896\" srcset=\"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pianodectomy.jpg 329w, http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pianodectomy-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pianodectomy&#8221;? Piano-sectomy? -nectomy? -ectomy? What do you call the removal of the parts of yourself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}