Most of the old 'homestead' homes when I grew up had a piano. Our's was one of the few that had a pump organ. To my knowledge, most are gone now. Too little interest after the television set arrived on scene. 😔

#21

Wow that is really great your mom had the music in her life to help her through her tuberculosis. And your mom passed on that gift to you.
Do you still enjoy singing?

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#22

Not here… I really do enjoy Bruno… it keeps me sane, and I’m so thankful and pray for everyone who donated to it every night. My television gets little use, as my cable is not hooked up, I don’t have satellite, and only watch DVDs.

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#23

I wish I still sang. Regrettably, once you quit exercising your diaphragm and vocal chords, it takes quite a while to bring them back.

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#24

But, hopefully you can still play your piano?

#25

That’s funny – we used to play and dance to those silly tunes as well!

I was reading a biography about Johann Strauss that claimed that almost one in every two Viennese people used to attend waltz/polka dances during very tumultous times, as a therapy to forget life’s problems for a couple of hours every week. I don’t know if the statistics were exaggerated, but I do think that these kinds of folk dances could have been a kind of collective therapy.

And – completely outside of polkas – I recently listened to Vivaldi’s “Winter” (performed by Aleksandr Hrustevich), and marvelled at his clean bellows shake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWmHGjR3gWc Maybe he’ll have you hauling your accordion from your closet!

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