Our Sunday school classrooms-- maybe yours too-- are filled with beautiful upright grand pianos that can't carry a tune in a bucket. These dinosaurs have been sitting in some hot classroom for centuries but heaven forbid we get rid of them!!! While on campus this past semester another educator was bemoaning the fact that old pianos are cluttering up her Sunday school classes too. The church does not want to kick them to the curb (sort to speak) and yet, they are dead reminders of a time gone by.
Did you know that the Sunday school idea was born out of a need in England when child labor laws were not yet established. Poor children had to work in the mills to bring home the bacon money for their families. Worried about the plight of the children a certain educator (his name escapes me...forgive me, "What's Your Name!") began educating the children on Sundays. When the Purists came to America, they continued this schooling in the churches making sure the good Purist children knew the way of the Lord. No wonder we can't get rid of old pianos that no longer work, have keys that stick or are missing, and cannot be tuned less the strings pop. As good Americans every Sunday we sing "Tradition!!!"
Pinterest has great ideas for re-purposing old pianos. Now hear me out, if the piano is fixable, by all means bring it back to life. I am referring to those old relics that are sitting in a corner gathering dust and vermin or are stored away in some basement gathering dust and vermin and MOLD! What is better? Is kicking it to the alley or curb a better solution? Or honoring the time and re-purposing it into something usable?
Like a "piano bar?"
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