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24" x 36" Oil - R.V. Harms 1992
My mother was anxious for me to learn to play the piano. Her argument was basically that my uncle Arthur had said he was so sorry he had never taken up the piano because now when he went to a party he was always just a wallflower. My mother missed the joke, because my uncle had such a phenomenal sense of humour that he was anything but a wallflower at a party.
I did, however, take piano lessons. Fortunately for the music world I was late to one of my lessons and the teacher wanted an explanation. I said that on my way to my lesson I had helped a neighbour lady catch her runaway cow. My piano teacher suggested I would be more suited to be a cowboy and that was it. My mother's dream of my being the life of the party was destroyed.
There is a Robert Frost poem - "Road Not Taken" and I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I hadn't been rejected by the music world. Would I have been surrounded by coloured lights and beautiful dancing women all flowing to the beat of my song? Or would I have just been the guy playing the piano?
US $2,600
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