Piano - view from my parent's house (2010)

 A view from my parent's last house shortly before my mother died in 1910.  This piano belonged to my paternal grandparents.  I think they bought it for father to take piano lessons.  The depression didn't hit them very hard (unlike my maternal grandparents)  Mason & Hamlin baby grand.

It came to us when I was in high school.  Every house they lived in hence had to have an appropriate place for the piano.  A friend of my brother's took it when my mother died.  What would I do with it.  I already have a piano I rarely play.  I guess the bench with the needlework went with it.

My father loved to play the piano, played almost every night.  He liked a boogie woogie style but everything he played had its own idiosyncracies like you really couldn't sing to it.  It was an indication of his general health.

This was in Rockford.  My mother had living room furniture put together by and interior designer in 1964.  French Provincial in shades of light green and aqua.  Sounds weird but I liked it.  Kind of low and slung.  I couldn't do anything with it.  Ilana's famous Napoleon lamp was part of that set.