一架1911年的贝希斯坦立式钢琴。
主语
这是我1911年的C.贝希斯坦9型立式钢琴，序列号101058。
我从1973年1月9日星期二下午3点开始吃它，当时我9岁。
我之前问过我的父母我是否可以学弹钢琴。我已经是一个相当不错的录音机演奏者，已经尝试了一年的原声吉他，但并没有真正喜欢上它。我的父母都不演奏乐器，尽管他们都喜欢听音乐。他们不知道该在钢琴里找什么，但碰巧听说隔壁村的一位老太太在卖她的钢琴。事实证明，她要价25英镑，这对当时的父母来说是一笔不小的钱——他们真的不得不考虑它是否负担得起，而且对他们得到的乐器的质量几乎没有什么欣赏。他们被告知它已经"热带化"，并向我讲述了它一定是在更炎热的气候中度过的……我的第一节钢琴课是在1973年1月12日星期五下午5点10分（与多萝西·帕金小姐一起：她有一个施坦威立式钢琴，我所有的早期课程都在上面，还有大约十几只猫）。
多年来，我的C.Bechstein和我一起经历了很多次搬家，2013年，康沃尔郡朗塞斯顿的Evan Hatch对它进行了全面翻修。今天（2019年3月23日星期六），Patrick Ytting正在为《钢琴书》采样，他在Christian的一个YouTube视频的评论区亲切地联系了我，并表示愿意为社区和子孙后代拍摄。
现在，它在这里…
A Bechstein upright piano from 1911.
The story
This is my C.Bechstein Model 9 upright piano from 1911, serial number 101058.
I have had it since 3 o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday 9th January 1973, when I was nine years old.
I'd previously asked my parents if I could learn to play the piano. I was already quite a good recorder player and had tried the acoustic guitar for a year without really taking to it. Neither of my parents played an instrument although both loved listening to music. They had no real idea of what to look for in a piano but happened to hear that an old lady in the next village was selling hers. It turned out that she was asking £25 for it which was quite a lot of money to my parents back then – they really had to think about whether or not it was affordable and had little appreciation of the quality of the instrument they were getting. They were told it had been "tropicalised" and recounted to me how it must have spent some of its life in hotter climes… My first piano lesson was at 5:10pm on Friday 12th January 1973 (with Miss Dorothy Parkin: she had a Steinway upright that I had all my early lessons on, as well as about a dozen cats).
My C.Bechstein has been through many moves with me over the years and in 2013 I had it fully refurbished by Evan Hatch of Launceston, Cornwall. Today (Saturday 23rd March 2019) it is being sampled for Piano Book by Patrick Ytting who kindly reached out to me in the comments section of one of Christian's YouTube videos, offering to come and capture it for the community and for posterity.
And now, here it is… |
