arkitrave :: log

To celebrate our fourth anniversary, we played a gig.

Well, actually, because of the gig, we’re going to celebrate tomorrow, but it was kind of fun, really. It was a vow renewal/surprise party…that is, it was their 10th anniversary, and she had no idea that they were renewing their vows or having a party. I’m sure there are women who wouldn’t do very well with that kind of surprise, but she seemed to take to it rather well. And there were lots of cute kids dancing. And we got to play Louis Armstrong, Beatles, and Sinatra in addition to some classical stuff. All in all, a nice evening.

The piano was a trip, though. I went to raise the lid to half-stick, and nearly knocked the lid onto the floor. Turns out the hinges were broken, so we ended up lifting the lid off the piano and propping it against a wall. I also had to pry off 4 dampers that were sticking to the strings so that the strings would speak.

Violinists are lucky people. It would be great to always be able to play your own instrument, instead of having to deal with crazy broken pianos everywhere.