Eventually, I lived with a family in a beautiful house in the country. Then, when I transferred to Indiana University, Bloomington, I took the piano with me. When I moved to Southern Illinois University to study with Ruth Slenczynska, he moved that piano into my apartment there. I had that piano in my apartment to practice on. When I moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music, my father was nice enough to let me take the Steinway baby grand. I absolutely loved it! But practicing on the Steinway baby grand was not so bad either! I was in heaven, especially those 30 minutes after dinner playing that 7′ Baldwin. So, then my sister and I had the beautiful Steinway baby grand to practice on, and in the playroom was the Baldwin Hamilton. That piano was such a joy to play! At that point, the Steinway baby grand went upstairs, and my parents sold the Sohmer upright. I would finish dinner by 6:30 and dash downstairs to play the pianos in his studio.Ī few years later, my father stepped it up and bought a brand new 7 foot Baldwin SF-10 semi-concert grand. He taught countless hours, but always had an hour long dinner break from 6:00 to 7:00. My father taught at Hofstra University, but he also did a great deal of teaching right in our home. But upstairs, we had the nicer Hamilton to play and practice on. We would teach in the playroom where that big old Sohmer was. That piano was upstairs, and the Sohmer upright was downstairs. So, my father bought a brand new Baldwin Hamilton studio upright. So, I got to play those pianos as well.Įventually, because my sister and I both studied the piano with my father and had to practice. It was a good piano, but my father had in his studio in our home a Baldwin L 6′ 3″ grand, as well as a Steinway model S, a beautiful little baby grand his father had given to him in the 1930s. That old Sohmer was my practice piano when we moved.
We moved when I was about five years old. This is the house where my father taught Billy Joel among many other people. When I was born, there was a big old Sohmer upright in my bedroom.īefore I studied piano, my older sister studied with my father. There are a lot of them, so let’s get started! So, I’m not going to include every single piano I have literally lived with, but every single one that was my practice piano. I’m Robert Estrin with a personal story about every piano I’ve lived with! I started selling pianos out of my home decades ago.
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