I know I’ve written about this before, but the church I have had my recitals at in the past just lost their baby grand piano last Spring.\u00a0 Which left me in a predicament.\u00a0 I don’t own a baby grand piano, so I feel like my students should have the opportunity to at least get to play on one at the recitals.<\/p>\n
So, the search began.<\/p>\n
And in a city as large as Shakopee, I was stunned<\/span> by the lack of baby grand pianos.\u00a0 I did manage to find one at the Junior high, but it would raise my rental almost $200.\u00a0 Then there was another church that I found that had one that we could use, but it was tucked in a corner with bad seating and I wouldn’t be allowed to move anything–oh, and it was another $25 over what I had been paying AND we can’t do any type of food there.\u00a0 So the search continued.<\/p>\n Until today.\u00a0 I decided to branch out (since apparently Shakopee is lacking in this area) to nearby cities.\u00a0 Lo and behold, I found an acceptable location just over the river in Chaska.\u00a0 I am going to have our Christmas recital at the Chaksa Community Center Theater.\u00a0 It’s a cute little theater with a baby grand piano that seats 200 people and then there is a side room I can also rent for us to do a cookie reception afterwards.\u00a0 We will have to be careful not to dawdle too much, because I pay by the hour, but it was able to give me everything I needed.\u00a0\u00a0 It did end up costing $50 more than what I had been paying, but with being able to get the piano I wanted plus an additional space it was the best option for now.\u00a0 So, we’re going to try it and see what happens.\u00a0 If we don’t like it we won’t use it again.<\/p>\n For now, I’m just so relieved to have SOMETHING figured out.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know I’ve written about this before, but the church I have had my recitals at in the past just lost their baby grand piano last Spring.\u00a0 Which left me in a predicament.\u00a0 I don’t own a baby grand piano, so I feel like my students should have the opportunity to at least get to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8673,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}