My Piano
所谓，旧的不去，新的不来。。。
I’m going to part with the piano that has been with me for the past nine years in less than 12 hours. The new owner is going to collect it and have it delivered to her house.
It’s the piano that I first started playing with, the piano that I went for my first exam with, the piano that I played my first piece on, the piano that I always complained of having heavy keys that require much effort to hit…and, its been around us for almost an entire decade.
Despite all its flaws, its age and everything about it, I still like it. All the memories that it has created for the past nine years. It was a second hand piano when we bought it, possibly already at least ten years of age by then, so it’d make it at least nineteen now. It’s still doing good and fine, except for a few strings having broke recently.
It was expected to be gone, we already delayed the selling for months, or even years. The piano wasn’t that adequate for a student learning and preparing for piano exams, it was more for the casual player – but I still managed to sit through 9 years with it, going for most of my exams with it. We bought it to see if things would work out, and things did, but the piano stuck to us longer than expected.
Sometimes I wish the piano was sold or given away to someone I knew, instead of some stranger on the market, so that I could go back to it every once in a while, and play on its ever so heavy keys that I’ve gotten used to by now.
I haven’t been the most diligent player at the piano – I’m not at it everyday, nor do I spend even an hour at it most of the time when I do play it. But when it’s gone, I’ll certainly miss walking into the house, and seeing a piano with a soothing wooden touch staring right at me. It’ll be replaced by something else soon. I’ll certainly miss playing on the piano with much effort. I’ll miss playing on the piano and complaining about its heavy keys. I’ll certainly miss its unique tone, richness and voice. I’ll certainly miss it.
Hopefully it’ll have a new lease of life with the new owner…and maybe, for all I know, I’ll might just see it again in future. Nine years isn’t a long time, nor a short time for a piano – however the memories with it were deep enough to etch an image in me.
Goodbye! So long, and thanks for all the fish for the past nine years! Enjoy the new companionship…
。。。但我不舍得旧的去，也不喜欢新的来。
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