Buying A - Used Piano On Craigslist

"It’s got a solid soul," Elias muttered, tightening a string. "They don't use wood like this anymore."

The listing was titled "1920s Upright - Free to Good Home," a phrase that is both the most beautiful and most dangerous sentence on Craigslist. buying a used piano on craigslist

Leo had been refreshing the "musical instruments" tab for weeks. As a grad student with a cracked linoleum floor and a love for Rachmaninoff, he couldn’t afford a Steinway, but he couldn't stand his plastic keyboard anymore. He messaged the seller, a woman named Martha, and by Saturday morning, he was driving to a part of town where the driveways were gravel and the trees were ancient. "It’s got a solid soul," Elias muttered, tightening

Martha’s house smelled like cedar and over-steeped tea. The piano sat in the corner of a sun-drenched parlor, looking like a shipwrecked vessel. It was a Hobart M. Cable, its mahogany finish dulled by a century of dust, with ivory keys that looked like weathered teeth. As a grad student with a cracked linoleum