the piano it sounds like a carnival

For my guy's birthday, we went to a piano bar.

Me & my guy at the piano bar.

We started the night at coffee shop, where some girl was singing, & playing her songs on a keyboard. We got bored, so I said why don't we go to the piano bar?

Fringed Boots

The piano bar was one of the things my guy had mentioned he wanted to do, back when we 1st moved here, but then we never did.

Piano Belt

At the piano bar, people tip the piano players with cash, & they request songs for them to play. Usually well known,  let's all sing along songs like, Baby Got Back, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Jessie's Girl, Enter Sandman, God Bless the U.S.A., Don't Stop Believing.... Songs that generally have a guitar.

Ivory Earrings recycled from piano keys

I've never known how to play the piano.
 My brother got one of those mini Casio Keyboards, for Christmas, when we were little. 

Piano Bracelet recycled from leather belt

When I say mini keyboard, I mean the size of a ruler. Yes, it was about that small. I remember taking the booklet with the sample songs in the back, & playing things like "When the Saints Go Marching In."

Piano Wristlet

My mom's friend had a daughter named Emily. She took piano lessons. She showed me how to play "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater," "Heart and Soul,"

Fringed Leather Clutch

& "Chopsticks." Does anyone remember the piano scene from the movie Big? That was a cute movie. Click on the above link to see that scene again.

Piano Pants

We moved away, & little Emily became a cheerleader. I never took music lessons, nor attempted to play a musical instrument, until I was an adult.

Wooden Necklace
recycled from inner workings of a piano

I could tell you which band was playing a song, or quote song lyrics, even to songs I didn't like. I got a "D" in Music Exploration, when I was in 7th grade. 

Ebony Earrings from recyled piano keys

I had no exposure, & didn't understand music theory. When I was in Jr. High, I lived next door to a singer. Sometimes she'd dropped me off at the Jr. High, on  her way to work, at the High School.   

Arm Warmers made from recycled sweaters

She had a piano in her house. She told me I could play it, because one day I was messing around with the piano keys, & using one of her beginning piano books.

The dueling piano players.

 It was fun, but that was the only time I played her piano. I was too embarrassed to go over to her house. I was afraid I would annoy her if I came over all the time, even though she told me no one played it. She was the woman who sang at my wedding, & who's borrowed wedding dress I wore.   

When the guy from the audience, played the guitar,
 that was hanging on the walls of the bar.

 I wish I'd taken her up on the offer. I still don't know how to play the piano. The truth is though, I'm more of a guitar girl. My favorite part at the piano bar was when the guitar was played. When I mentioned it, another guitar player said to me, "Well it's not like I hear a song, & go man, that really needs some piano, more piano." ;)

I love this song. I remember playing it on my record player while studying the lyrics from the album I'd bought at the thrift store.