![]() I am grateful for the beauty that music brings me and the pleasure I have of glimpsing my piano when I come into the house each night. If I could remember his name, I would also thank the guy at Jansen who worked with Fred and me to get me the custom legs for my bench that match the custom legs on the piano. And thanks, Norbert, for talking to me about Estonias a few years back. Thanks, Fred at Classic Pianos and Trish of the former Steinway Gallery in Anchorage who helped Larry deliver and set up my piano. Thanks, Mom, for providing those piano lessons 40 years ago. What happiness I have playing my Estonia. I play almost nightly and those short stints with Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, sometimes Satie and occasionally Cole Porter help me through life. So this little post is just about how much I love my piano. I'll try to post a picture if I can figure out how. And it's the prettiest piano I've ever seen. The touch is for me, the pedaling, the mid range bell tones, the sonorous bass.oh, the bass. I wish the company all the best for the happiness this musical instrument has brought me. And I am especially grateful to the technicians in Estonia who built my beautiful piano. ![]() That's right! I am grateful to all those piano showrooms in Washington and Colorado that had new or used Estonias for me to play. Many people post about buying the piano you love, regardless of the brand. So I leapt even further and ordered the 225 with the Hidden Beauty Bubinga interiors. Long story but I had the chance to change my mind when I was already a ways into the ordering process. This concern was magnified no doubt by the fact that the piano would arrive in Anchorage, a long way from Bellevue, before I saw it. ![]() It was scary to consider ordering a piano that I would not have played, but I really enjoyed playing each and every Estonia I had run into over the years. In 2012, I visited Classic Pianos in Bellevue and decided I would order an Estonia. Someone got a lovely Christmas present that year and it wasn't me. One of them seemed a little brighter in tone but the next day when I called back, it had been sold. One year at Christmas time, I was visiting family in Washington and played two 190's side by side at Prosser in Tukwila. I looked for grand pianos for about five years on and off and in the last couple years of that search, whenever I played an Estonia (concert grands or 190s,) I felt like I had found MY piano. I just want to post how thankful I am to have this piano in my life. It's three years, almost to the day, since my Estonia 225 rolled through my front door with the aid of the skilled Larry Allen, who is the only piano mover to use in Alaska if you're on the road system! ![]()
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