New piano!

It's been a while since we last posted because... our new piano finally arrived! Yay! It got here Monday morning, and we've been playing with it in the evenings. I've pulled out my old piano music to play, as well as some new books I picked up, and Jeff is starting to learn to play from an adult piano education book he chose at the music store. He mastered "Amazing Grace" on all black keys in his first lesson. LOL Anyway, it's been pretty fun for both of us. It's a digital piano, so it has a bunch of built-in music that it can play by itself as well as various instruments to mess around with in addition to the basic piano sound. It doesn't sound quite as awesome as a real piano, but it's pretty close. It feels a lot like a real upright piano, though - it has a full wood soundboard built-in to the back, so it reverberates and vibrates the pedals and all that. Not bad for a piano that we can pick up and move around on our own, and that we'll never have to tune. My brother, Nathan, the music major, has already snubbed our choice of digital over acoustic, but I think he might like this one a little better than other digitals he's played. It will be interesting to watch him play next time he visits us, which may be a while, since they just received 13.5" of snow in Hays last night!