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An Afternoon at the Piano in San Francisco

·San Francisco, California·#bay area#family#at-home#piano
A smiling person holds a child with hands on a piano keyboard in a black and white scene.

Over to San Francisco for the afternoon, most of which happened at the piano. The baby stood at the keyboard, both hands flat on the keys, delighted by the noise coming out of a real grand — the lid was up, so every whack rang out through the whole room.

No actual songs got played. It was mostly two-handed banging, then a pause to point at something, then back to it. At one point the little one leaned in to study the keys up close, very serious about it, before going back to the flat-palm method.

We never got a turn at the bench ourselves. Hard to argue with an audience of one who thinks every chord is the best one yet.

A smiling person and child sit together at a piano, with the child's hands on the keys.A person in a white sweater watches a child in a polka-dot shirt play a piano.A person looks at a child reaching for the keys of a piano.A person watches a child reach for the keys of a black piano, with its golden harp exposed.A person in a white sweater looks at a child playing piano keys on a black grand piano.A person kisses a child's forehead while the child sits at a piano, touching keys and pointing with a finger.A person in a white sweater leans over a child who points and touches piano keys, with part of the piano's interior visible.A person leans their head towards a child sitting at a black piano, who points with one finger.

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