Reflecting On Piano

Piano on Sherwood

By Mike Apichella

Lessons learned in Baltimore during the 1980′s.

Sherwood Rd. winds up a steep hill near a central shopping district in Cockeysville, Maryland. Every Wednesday from 1984 to 1986 my mother and I drove through this sleepy backroad’s thick tree canopy, dusty gravel driveways, and its rows of charming colonial ranchers. Whenever we headed up that road it felt like we’d teleported into an Arcadian grove far away from the synthetic suburban sprawl which peered up at the road’s highest points.

In 1981 at age seven I began taking piano lessons. These originally happened in a music store at the Towson Town Center FINISH READING HERE

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