Commentary: When my son stopped piano, I took over his lessons. Here’s how that went
by Emily Ziff Griffin, Los Angeles Times
Feb 26, 2024
3 minutes
In the early 1980s, my father got a Baldwin upright electric piano. My dad had played piano as a child and in college. He’d performed live, improvising soundtracks to silent movies at an art-house cinema in Connecticut.
I wanted to learn how to play because I wanted to be like him. My father put stickers on the keys and hand wrote the notes’ letters on each one. He taught me “Yesterday” by the Beatles and “Heart and Soul,” which delighted me, especially when he’d
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